You're like a Menstrual Cyclist

Especially for the new girls @Nemesis @Cyn @Ayana (good luck - I mean, have fun with Meldresi in heat!)

Heat. She never thought she would experience this again.

She had almost forgotten how uncomfortable and degrading it was. The Queen was restless, unable to sleep, pacing frantically, a low soft whine erupting from time to time. Now that she had a mate, she felt a desperate, aching, longing for Burke. Where the hell was he? This was a once in a lifetime chance to get her pregnant, and he was absent? Pathetic.

It was only in the hormonal storm that was estrous that Meldresi would dare insult or question her mate. The cycle tended to make women snappish and horny all at the same time...it was quite interesting.

She made her way to Redgrove, searching for any sign of her mate. In this flux of hormones, Meldresi thought back to the young girls that Burke had collected over the weeks she was gone. A little harem, if you will. The Night Queen growled at the thought, though the rational side of her reminded the rest of her brain that Burke was far too loyal to ever think of that...but would he? No, he wouldn't...