Ravensblood Forest salt fires

he was supremely stupid. but likewise it would have been equally foolish to continue by comparing his brain to a smashed coral.
he offered to help. she watched him with a mistrusting light in her eyes. "dey be pregnant also. more weeks along t'en me. dey need softer furs, more light. better dens."
her tail lashed. "t'ere has been no fighting. if you mean to keep us, then treat us wid more care."
the idea of her baby relatives, her brothers and sisters being born here and not home was untenable.
the idea of her own body giving birth here was impossible. never. she simply would not.