Horizon Ridge Mexican highway

Although Pied knew Kisu wanted her to stop worrying as much—and he certainly had helped—she simply couldn't stop fretting entirely. There were still some loose ends which agitated her. Although she took Kisu's statement to mean they would conceive no matter what, she still felt worried and restless. She wondered if these feelings marked the onset of her heat.

"If it does happen tomorrow, we'll be running to the plateau, not walking there," she mused aloud, her joke coming across rather dryly. "I mean, if we just went for it, I'm sure we wouldn't be welcome here and we wouldn't want to risk it anyway. Hawkeye would give us refuge, though I'm sure she'd prefer we not arrive already pregnant, begging to join rather than asking just in case..." Realizing she was babbling, Pied closed her mouth.

Meeting her mate's eyes, Pied drew in a long, slow breath, held it a moment, then released it. She hoped that she could let go some of her anxiety as well. "This isn't how I wanted it to be... but that's just how life is sometimes, isn't it?" She found herself looking sideways, her face growing wistful as she gazed at the sea. "I'll miss living here, if we do have to go," she murmured, trying but failing to fully stifle a soft sigh.