Northstar Vale fecundity

tamar reached a paw to his face.

she lay wrapped in him. he had loved her before, but this time it had been new. it had been like the first time, but without the desperation and the secrecy. her cheeks were warm to remember how she had moved with arsenio.

and her body spurred her back with the same hunger. tamar mouthed the base of his ear. 

"'uhibuk 'iilaa al'abad," she whispered, the words of heatwave and sand and khamsin and mother.

words she could give to her children. their children.