Sing of Secret Sorrow

Deathbelle really was perfect. She was so very kind and understood exactly what Iolaire was feeling. Being a mother, she imagined that the woman could put herself in Io's pawprints. What would it be like if she couldn't have had children? Most likely she would have tried everything to make herself able to reproduce. Just like Iolaire was going to do.

Belle said that she would make Sirius listen and Io laughed. "If anyone can, you can." She had no doubt that the warlord would listen to his empress. The little healer really wanted to believe that Sirius would see reason and understand why she had to take on this task. He had a family now. She didn't. Could he feel the pain that she was going through? Now that he had them, could he imagine life without his children?

Leaning forward, she pressed her forehead against Deathbelle's forehead. "Thanks for listening to me. No one else can really understand." Other than the woman before her, she didn't have any female friends. Or male friends, for that matter, not that they would have understood her plight. Pulling back, she smiled at the speckled woman. "I really have missed you, Belle."