Ouroboros Spine when I'm dead and gone

Easy recognized Raindrop by sight, and her heart ached to find her still without Sumac, and skipped a beat for the roundness of her flanks.

"I know you, rain daughter," Easy replied, her tail wheeling skyward as she looked closely upon the woman for the first time. When she had visited in the past, Raindrop had been busy with the pups, and Easy had not wanted to intrude. Now, though, it seemed she had come just in time. Regardless of who the father of these pups might be (and Easy had a very good guess), Raindrop had married into their family, and thus, the pups would be born into it.

She closed the distance between them, bowing her head to Raindrop in offering. A press of foreheads was the way she wished to greet the woman who had married her son, perhaps twice over, now.

"I am the black bear," she said to the woman, her tail whisking. "Easy. Ishara."

She drew back.

"You look beautiful," she said with great feeling; some of it sorrow, but much of it gladness.