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He snuggled closer, and she smiled.  Though she would not admit it, there had been a slight breath of relief when their children had all been daughters this year; she loved her sons fiercely, but she could not understand them.

Yet here she was again with one, and he would grow.  She thought again to Reyes, and laid her head down.  She did not know how, but she'd failed him.  Perhaps it was absence.  She'd let him have distance, space to grow, and in doing so the space had engulfed them.  If this time she held him closer...

Maybe it would be different.  She'd never had another to trust with her troubles until Erzulie, and somehow, she'd failed to make that space with their first.  She wasn't sure how she'd do it with these now, but it was worth a try.