momma's always right

The sudden shock on Kiyo’s features would reveal almost more than Hattori’s one word greeting of the woman who birthed him. Who thought that he had died in the ambush, as the rest of the Iga believed. Venom was a little lost in the dynamics before her, especially Kiyo’s reaction to her call for Hattori. For now the confusion would remain with the other tumultuous emotions that boiled within her. The news she’d been given by Kiyo and what she’d told the woman.. For now it wasn’t clear that Hattori was the father of the future pups the antlered woman discovered. Venom was just glad for now that Kiyo wouldn’t be making a run for it after she’d been so kind.

As Hattori materialized the realization overwhelmed the pale woman and her emotions spilled forth without hesitation. The thought that this would be her children’s grandmother did not escape her attention and she barely held herself back from inching forward to offer a supportive shoulder for her to lean on. She moved forward before the Empress was further tempted and for a moment she was forgotten as son reunited with mother.

Her own thoughts and feelings about everything were pushed aside for them as she stewed the scene before her and the meeting leading up to. Kiyo wouldn’t have approached her at all had she not noticed her… condition. Venom shook herself lightly as the thought lingered at the back of her head. A seed of panic she refused to show anyone. For now she ignored it, mostly to act as though the pregnancy didn’t exist. If she didn’t tell Hattori perhaps the diagnosis would prove false. For now she would remain silent, watching the two of them and allowing her explanation.

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