stardust in your eyes, love [birth]

Venom wanted so badly to be finished giving birth, she felt like a miserable wreck as her children were being born. She wasn’t quite so sure she would be coping so well if she were on her own. Kiyo was ever supportive as she assisted in cleaning up the newborns and making sure they found their first meal. The feeling of them nursing helped comfort her anxieties and her fear was slowly subsiding as time continued on. She struggled with the pain and her warring emotions while she prayed for the end of her struggle.

Hattori and Kiyo both offered their support as the party was forced to wait and see what would happen. She would either have more pups, or shed the inner lining to signal the end when recovery would start. For now she accepted Kiyo’s offer of herbs, however much her stomach didn’t wish to take the bitter herbs.

For a moment she thought perhaps they had indeed reached the end, but that now familiar urgency reappeared and forced Venom back to work. She struggled again, her exhaustion showing now that the birth was dragging on. Twice more, with a painfully long interval in between, and the Empress and Shogun welcomed five new children into the world.

Venom was indeed thankful for the herbs given to her throughout. She gave a final heavy sigh as the last puppy was born. A tiny little runt of a girl, Venom noted absently as she tried to focus tired eyes on the five perfect children she made. Again she leaned back against Hattori, her heart's desire simply to fall asleep beside him, curled around their new little ones.