Herbalists' Cache When the levee breaks

He breathed a shaky sigh of relief. He believed Morwenna to be fierce, confident, and capable- but knew that sometimes those characteristics were also accompanied by ego and pride. A more stubborn creature might have held their ground, and in doing so, put their children at risk. He was glad that she would flee, if push came to shove. 

Of course! He said, lightly surprised that she even felt the need to ask. I- I'll have to walk a kind of....Thin line for a bit, so Sun Eater doesn't... What would he do? Cast him out? Deny him any visitation rights? Kill him? If Ridgeback slipped up, the Chieftan would have every reason to want to deprive his wife of her support system. 

She seemed uncertain about the future, if such peace could ever be obtained. He reached out to nudge her chin, to lift hers ever so slightly. There's lots of places like that, He was sure of it. Most wolves don't want war. What they do want, He said, looking down as one of the children wriggled, Is cutie little patooties like these ones- and you've got four of them, so, He said, with a light shrug. 

He felt the uncertainty too. He knew that anything could happen between this moment, and the break of the next dawn. Fate could crash down upon them like a bolt of lightning, and rip them all apart- but there was a chance that it might not, and that was all that he would live for. 

It'll be alright. We'll come up with a plan.

Ice Diver wasn't there to do the thinking for him, anymore; he would have to do it himself.