Rising Sun Valley At least the birds hear me cry

@Dagfinn forward-dated a litte, since the other threads are fairly slow. At this point Atshen has ripped off her leg and Nico bred with her.

Deep breaths.

What she had done was unforgivable. It was stupid, it was reckless. She was weak. Pathetic. 

What would Spring and Heston say? They would be disappointed, probably kill her. Skylaris had tried; she had tried to escape the first young male and she had tried to escape the second, but she hadn't tried hard enough. The first had taken her whole bloody leg, leaving a stump that refused to stop hurting. The woman could barely stand! She had to shuffle, dragging herself along the still frozen ground. It would take a lot of getting used to, if she ever could get used to it. And then there was the other male. Nico, wasn't it? Future father of her pups. Pups she wasn't ready for. Pups that would probably be killed the moment they were born. That's what the alphas did, right? If a member of theirs broke the rules and bred the pups would die? So, she'd go through the pain of giving birth with no reward. A fitting punishment, though Sky had seen pregnant females be killed too.

Was that how it was going to end? Killed beside her pups by her own alphas?

A sob escaped her jaws, followed by a single tear. Then more began to fall, and soon she was crying loudly, a salty puddle beneath her chin. She lay on the ground and wept, wept for her pups and for her life. Wept for Mawk and wept for his lover. Wept for Sunny, who she'd managed to befriend. Her tail drooped along with her ears and her eyes scrunched closed. She would die and they'd all forget about her, wouldn't they?