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Fuji was going to hold her nose and force the draught down her throat if she had to, if she could get close enough that was. When her mother finally turned enough to get her elbows beneath her, her daughter was there, holding up the bowl of bitter liquid that would hopefully calm the older wolf enough to focus on the task at hand. She didn't sigh out her relief when the drink was finally gone. Merely offering a hint of a nod as she moved back down to the business end now it was time for the show. The ooze was unsettling. It smelled like a mushroomy part of a forest after a storm and she certainly didn't expect childbirth to be anything like this. It wasn't what her mother had explained to her to expect. This was a nightmare, and on this day she was convinced that she would never let a boy put his thing anywhere in her general vicinity if this was the eventual outcome. Why or how her mother had thought it would be a good idea to do it twice? She would never understand.

The first... Wait, she wouldn't call that a pup... What was it? It slid free without a sack attached, coated in a yellowish-brown substance that smelled awful. Where one might have expected to see eyes and ears, there was a cluster of mushrooms instead, fungi instead of limbs, vaguely wolf shaped with a small canine nose and mouth but not much else that was recognisable as a wolf. She moved it closer to Otis to check for a breath or a pulse.

She wanted to scream.

Before she would have time to process what she was seeing the next came through, this time in a sac and looking normal enough. All black and greys, 4 legs, 2 ears, she slid this one closer to her mother, and waited to catch the next, but it seemed like things were slowing down already. That couldn't be right... Sure the pup was huge, but her mother's sides still bulged and contracted, there had to be more. What could possibly be the hold up?

Her mother's demand was met with a concerned look before the opossum carried the little bundle closer and Fuji turned her face away. She didn't need to see whatever that was again.

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