The Night Mother's Children (BIRTHING THREAD)

Fade here? This has been the most character-developing thread I've had with Bane... Incredible...

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When the turn to talk came to be Meldresi's Bane fell silent, at first it was because he felt overpowered by the social hierarchy by which the pack was ruled, Meldresi being on top, but then, as she mentioned what had happened before his entrance the silence wasn't for respect. Bale was authentically grieving for the loss of his stillborn children, a feeling that he had never had the disgrace to have.

"Three... Three of them.. Died...?" Bane asked, a single tear failing to form in the corner of his white eyes. It was all clear now. Everything that he had been so confused about, everything that he had feared about this situation, all of it became clear in his mind after processing the words that Meldresi had just mentioned. He didn't have to be the children's paternal figure because it was his duty, he didn't have to be a father because he had made a mistake, the only thing that was important now was that he was a father. Their father. And that all that mattered now was them. It was natural, it was simple. He was their protector now. None of them was going to die under his watch.

"Just a word of warning, Bane. But you are still their father regardless."

"I am." Bane agreed, and with those words he meant to leave it clear to the new mother that he wasn't going to go anywhere, he would be there for the pups, and not less importantly, he was going to be there for her too.

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