Ouroboros Spine when I'm dead and gone

So they'd combined their families. Easy still waited to hear which children were left — for children always seemed to go before they were meant to. Before a mother wanted them to go, at least.

She bowed her head when she heard that both litters had lost three. That was all of Valiant's daughters, and all but one of Sumac's. Easy grieved for them, even as she hoped that they were, somewhere out there, still well. It seemed that Angel, at least, had been seen quite recently.

"I'm glad to see the family growing," she replied, her smile warming despite her worries. "Angel brought me news of Sumac and Vairë when she visited. It's good you've found love in each other."

She pressed her shoulder briefly to the other woman's, and was then happy to follow Raindrop to her den. She greeted Ponderosa with a gentle smile, allowing Raindrop to introduce them as she pleased. Angel called her Grandmother — but she would bow here to whatever tradition the girl's mother wanted to keep.