Valley of Gold you may encounter the body

it's totally fine, kat! as a side note, you two get my 300th post! <3

grateful for the break and for the fact that tvar does not push: in continuing on when she needed a break or for making her state that her paws were sore and she was ( almost ) desperate for a quick cat nap. for a few moments towhee basks in the sunshine as she lowers herself to her haunches carefully ( still getting used to the additional weight ), tvar's corny words that make her cheeks warm with a blush: a giddy newly wed and in the portion of pregnancy that she enjoyed it. not too large and no longer nauseous by everything.

though it is no fault of bushtit, this buoyed giddiness is short-lived. her brother arrives with ghost flying shortly behind. but absent her mother. and while towhee might not've worried too much: her brother was the age in which wander by himself was not unusual ... towhee's observance of his reactions, running towards her only to stop short, bring a sort of perhaps unwarranted sense of dread washing over her.

tvar reacts as she would expect, moving to place himself between her and bushtit. she rises to her paws, slower than she would like and moves to his side, brushing her muzzle against his shoulder to communicate at ease. she pushes past her husband, towards her brother. -brother,- she signs in ptero in both greeting and for tvar's benefit as it is the easiest way she knows to communicate that they are related whilst not spending too much time when she is alarmed by bushtit's reactions and her mother's lack of presence. -are you okay? where's mom?-