Moonspear bargaining (part 1)

Elentari's season had yet to arrive this year. She still hoped to bear children, to add to the family of Moonspear and villages beyond. To give Maggak and Acrux younger brothers and sisters. To love and teach. To protect and hold close as family. The dark Archer loved motherhood.

But Argent, Acrux's biological father, would not be a part of that picture this year. She understood his choice but she resented his abandonment of their children. Of the pain inflicted on them, herself and Sialuk. Her lover, so close to giving birth.

Clenching her jaw, she snorted through her nose. It was not like he had been there all that often anyways. But Alaric always had. She forced her thoughts of the men to the back of her mind as she gathered with her son and daughter outside Sialuk's ulaq. 

Acrux was fraught with anxiety over the pain Anaa was in. Maggak, steadfast. Blue eyes were grateful landing on Chakliux, an ever present entity of strength and resilience, even when distant in his home village, Moontide. Her heart lurched, filling with thick emotion as she pulled herself close to her children. A gentle dark arm wrapped around Acrux's shoulders while she tenderly nosed Maggak on her cloud silver crown. 

"I am proud of you. So, so proud of you. Your spirts are strong, like your mother's." The pains of laboring she listened to from within. Watchful for anything that sounded out of the ordinary. But she was not worried. Not with Sialuk's strength and the wealth of skill with the healers of the Spear. "We are with you...with her, together. Always."