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It did seem like the scrapes and bruises - well, the medical stuff, anyway - was what she was most interested in learning first. It was a lot of stuff Chickadee mentioned and Eljay was a little lost in it all at first, trying to figure out what to address first. He suggested eventually, Maybe we can take those things as they come to the pups. He understood that it might feel like she needed to hurry to Chickadee, but he didn't quite feel that way. Yes, he could feel that he was getting old, and he did often think about how his parents were dead and buried a few years by this point in time, but he always expected that he'd feel it coming, when death did catch up on him. He wondered idly if his parents had felt it coming. A fever is the easiest to feel, because you can feel how warm they are. As an afterthought, as if he changed his own mind, too, and decided to start on the Lecture Of Everything, anyway.

It's weird how that works, isn't it? he said, in regards to birth. He didn't know from first hand experience, of course, but he had talked about it a lot and seen it a lot in his years as midwife. I don't know why it is that way. Maybe it's nature's gift to feel good once the work is all done. After a short pause, .. And perhaps it's nature's gift to feel pain when you need to keep working, too.