I Don't Wanna

It was no sound, but the scent of blood and birth that had drawn Katja to the area. She stood a ways back as the woman labored, far enough away and downwind to keep her presence unknown. She was there to observe, not to interfere, and she made no effort to fetch Kassander or Warja either. If the child was worth saving, it would survive its birth without assistance, and she had little care for the thrall who birthed it.

A single large pup finally born to suckle upon the proffered teat, and Katja cast her gaze over it critically. The wet, blurred colors upon the puppy-pelt resembled the mother more than anything - there was little to see of Finnvi in the creature, though it seemed to have inherited Laufey's size if nothing else.

Once she had judged the thrall unlikely to attempt to kill the pup, she turned to leave once again. She would inform Laufey of the birth of the child, and he would choose whether to accept it or not. If he did they would sprinkle it with water, he would name the child, and it would become Finnvi. It would be taken from the thrall and the thrall would become nursemaid when the pup was hungry, but would be no mother to it. They would not allow her to contaminate a Finnvi child with weak Alacratia culture as too many had already. And if Laufey did not wish to claim the child as his... they would have another thrall.

-exit Katja-