The Sentinels Reaching a fever pitch

:D

Quietly knowing herself now to be trusted enough among the wolves of Donnelaith to mix with their young, Lucani actively sought out Osprey's pups that day. It was curious to think she had first "met" them when they'd been nothing but bulges in the storyteller's figure — and ones that had caused a good deal of morning sickness, no less.

At the entrance to the whelping den she found one silvery child, and regarded her gently. Hello, little bird, she said fondly, recalling what Osprey had said about giving her children bird names.