What?!

She had been worried about the demotion, and it did bother her - but not quite as much as her own sickness and weird moods had. Lots of appetite, little appetite, sickness for days like that meeting with no real cause and it randomly coming and going. That had preoccupied her thoughts, and coupled with her disdain for Sparrow, it made the demotion bitter, but not life-focusing.

Perhaps it made her a bad person, but she couldn't help but feel at least a little bit of amusement at Lark's expression at the admission. Perhaps it was just the mild panic lurking beneath her skin and the desperate need to feel normal - something she expected would never be what it was again - that caused the amusement. "Yeah." His first reaction nearly mirrored her first reaction when Vali gave her the news. Unexpected, surprising, and yet logically it shouldn't have been either.

A high-pitched, stress giggle escaped her at his questions. "Yeah I think I'm both too. I mean, I'm excited. I'm uh, terrified too. What if we suck at parents? It's not like either of us had good examples to follow... but pups." Her voice was breathless, high-pitched, and very much showed all the emotion she spoke of; there was just no hiding it. There wasn't. "We should uh, probably tell Sparrow." She didn't want to. Not at all. The idea of it completely bothered her, but she knew that was how it would have to be - and therefore she'd do it.