Wheeling Gull Isle leizashou

oh, their little lives; their small limbs; their small downy and round forms. she was all of them and also herself; they did not feel so distant from her womb even as they grew each day, and she looked upon their perfection.
heda kissed the head of little judah, swept malakai to her chest. "peace between you," a ripple of laughter carrying the words down toward simeon, who she parted from his twin and gathered to another place, milk offered again.
and dinah, baby dinah, her lamentations ceasing as she reached for her mother. heda dropped her words into a hum and kissed the miniscule paw, eyes stung with joyous tears, for her love was overflowing and bountiful.