Moonspear aliuktuk ⚶

<3 we can fade our older thread!

jarilo found her half-asleep in the space outside the mouth of their den. restless as she was, the girl's rounded body forced her to a stop when necessary. fatigued, she had succumbed in the warm spring air. when the tread of the ostrega man was heard, her moon-soft ears lifted, a small smile coming to rest upon her mouth as she beheld him. "uiga," she murmured across the way, inviting him close to her with a longing air.

she had said it many times before; it was honeyed between her lips, and when the distance between them had been closed, kukutux was happy to breathe the scent of jarilo, reach out for his touch. "i think it will be time soon," she whispered softly, apprehension entering her gaze unbidden. she remembered how it had seemed only to watch, a frightened, curious girl hovering outside the birth ulaq. kukutux breathed out. "are you ready to be ada, jarilo?"