King Elk Forest Mechanical Love

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How was she to relax? Vex stared at Fury blankly for a second, maw agape, and then she shook herself, gritting her teeth. A swim it was. She turned towards the weir, for a moment wishing she had not paired with Vivaan; she did not like this. But, she had to remind herself that she was doing this for the Dominion — for what she was building. This was her sacrifice.

She entered the water — it was cool, and she, far too warm. The water washed over her forelegs, easing her aching joints, and she waded further, until her toes barely brushed the silty ground. It was heaven, for but a moment; another contraction came.

Vex could feel them moving, getting into line. She left the water, panting as she pushed. One left her womb, and as she birthed it there on the shore, it was even more pain, and the mess it brought disgusted her. She wouldn't have this in her den.

More contractions, more pain, but the Queen would not break, no matter how severe it got; she would do this in silence. She bore her first girl, and then a second. The last whelp was the worst of them all, pain-wise. When all whelps had been birthed, she thought she was done... but no, out came the rest of the birth a short time later, and then Vex returned to the weir to cleanse herself of the gore.

And then, there were her puppies... Vex hadn't a maternal bone in her body. She stared at them as they cried for her milk, and yet, they, too, required cleaning. Biting back a shudder, she leaned in to bathe her young, and when all the cruor was gone from them, she brought them one by one to her whelping den.

Four whelps. Tradition dictated that only three were worthy. The last stuck out from his gray and cream siblings; he was pure white, with a pink nose. It unsettled her — had she been cursed with an albino? Vex looked to Fury, gaze uncertain. "Something is wrong with this one."