Redhawk Caldera goldpearl

it did. she felt so secure here with her dad and the little ones, her mother close, her husband out protecting all of them. it was right. it was the way things were supposed to be.
slowly she yawned, collecting eagle and crane and cardinal, setting them back to her sore chest.
but her body was calmer now; she smiled at eljay and shut her eyes, overcome with tiredness just from their brief conversation and the intensity of feeling.
beneath her father's eye, within the same den where she had been born, and with her own babies against her side now, chickadee slid into a deep sleep.