and the reason is you

Balled couldn’t nor would she relax. The woman was an unknown stranger, and telling by the way her paws were silent gave Ballad everything she needed to know. The dark she wolf was no Ademre, though her motivations were still very much unknown. She was obviously disturbed, the way her eyes went red with tears and her voice broke from emotion. Balled didn’t judge, nor did she show any sign that she noticed beyond the compassionate words her paws signed out.

The woman’s dodging of the question was answer enough for the Pyre woman. Ballad was patient as the woman stumbled through her words, the cross fox relaxed more than the fire marked new mother. Still, the woman complimented her new young and lifted the focus of attention off herself. Ballad wouldn’t press her.

”No need to be sorry.” Ballad offered softly as her tarnished silver gaze returned to the two newborns at her belly. ”Thank you, but no they have not gained their names yet.” Tradition stated the family would help to decide their names, but Ballad was without her clan now. ”In a few days time.” Before the dawn of their third day. She would pray to Tor and Fenris to reveal them to her in their own time.