Dreams don't always come true - I hope

She opened her eyes and she was in their den, it was dark save for the flickering, dying fire in the middle of the den. She wasn't laying next to it though, she was further away to stay away from the heat. It was purely a light source at this point. A sharp, pulling, cramping pain around her sides made her gasp and she lifted her head, her sapphire gaze landed on the subtle swell of her side where their children were growing. Another, insistent pain gripped her and her mismatched ears fell back fearfully. It wasn't nearly time for them to come, it was much too early. She had only begun to show her pregnancy a week or two prior, there was no way it was time.

But the pain she felt said otherwise, shooting through her and making her whine. She looked around for Iroh and couldn't find him, panic filling her chest. She tried to call for him, but she couldn't get a sound out besides another pained whine. The contractions seemed to hit her all at once and just as suddenly all she could smell was the blood, her young pregnancy over in an instant, shutting her eyes tight so she wouldn't have to see, feeling tears burning at her eyes.

Elise blinked her eyes open with a gasp, swallowing past a lump in her throat as she panted lightly against the panic griping her chest. She realized with a start that she wasn't alone, she was still pressed into Iroh's chest, slowly coming back down to earth, blinking away the tears that had gathered in her eyes as she slowly released the grip she had taken on his fur. She realized he had been trying to wake her up and she blinked as she lifted her gaze to look at him with a shaky, relieved sigh. Just a dream. Just a nightmare. "Iroh... Oh what a terrible dream..."

Elise Adravendi