Ouroboros Spine walk to the road

"I missed you, too," said Valiant, glad to see her safe and sound once more. But there was something different about her — something he couldn't place for all of two seconds before she showed off the swell of her sides.

His mind blanked. Blood rushed in his ears, as if he had had a very close brush with death.

"You — " he said, intelligently. "You're — " Was this good news? Terrible news? He thought about a lot of things right then, but clung fiercely to the idea of their children growing up together, as it was the best one he had at the moment. "Me too," he told her, his voice still strained.

Finally he cleared his throat, offering a weak smile at his own expense.

"I mean — Vai's pregnant, too," he clarified, his tail wagging and then flagging as his eyes traced over her changed figure. "What happened?" he asked her, feeling dread for no clear reason.