A Long Time Coming

*Tahlia* · 09-18-2013, 02:26 AM

Walk | Talk | Think

For a large portion of Tahlia's life, she had yearned for the small accomplishment of gaining a family, a husband and children that she could devote herself to. It was how things were done in her pack of origin; women were married off to raise a family her husband could be proud of and prove herself a competent wife. And after acquiring Bane as her mate she had thought herself halfway there. No sooner had she come into her season, she pressed for pups, and obligingly he complied with her request. So presently she was on the home stretch to finally having that family she so dreamed about.

Of course, Tahlia also had a bad habit of glamorizing things in such a way that made reality somewhat less appealing than it was in her imagination. Marriage had always seemed a pleasant finality until her first husband had gotten himself killed and she had been forced to seek another as a tarnished widow. And now the miracles of life that she was attempting to carry were proving to be far more than she had anticipated. Not only was she already showing - in perhaps a few weeks time she would reach the halfway point - but the weight and hunger and discomfort were trying her patience, upsetting her already imbalanced hormones. Her reflection did not look the same when she peered at herself within the waters of the lake, she did not feel like herself with these new bodies growing inside of her, and she knew she was not entirely acting like herself either. Bossy one moment and pleading the next, she was certainly going to run her elder husband ragged before his time.

So when the call came from Maverick for the whole of Seracia to gather there was the slightest bit of trepidation that made the wolf hesitate before running off to answer. A gathering. With all of the pack. And her feeling irritable and less like her typically polite and dignified self. Yes, this is going to go well, she grumbled within the safety of her mind, ears splaying disapprovingly at the idea. Her position beside the lake, lying half within the shade and half out so that at least a part of her would dry in the sun from her impromptu swim, held much more appeal than did the meeting she was expected to be at. But knowing that she had an image to protect - even if her children were already doing their darnedest to distort it - she knew she truthfully had no choice.

With a vocalized groan, she drew herself grudgingly to her paws and trotted off into the woods, her still damp forelegs slightly chilled within the denser shadows. Their place of meeting was surprisingly close, and catching on to the scent of the healer Loccian the pregnant russet and black she-wolf finally came within sight of them. Although a large portion of her mind was preoccupied with feeling suddenly insecure and self-conscious because of her increasingly obvious condition, Tahlia devoted the other part to maintaining the same sort of semblance that she so customarily appeared before the pack with. A vague hint of a smile was set upon her muzzle while dark golden eyes skimmed the familiar and unfamiliar faces presently gathered, her head politely lowered and her tail to match. Just a little did her eyes seem to dazzle as they alighted upon the pups, and feeling her smile stretch into something more earnest she padded quietly toward Maverick for a small private audience before the meeting could truly be called to order.

"My apologies for being late in bestowing my congratulations to you on your family," she stated with a smile and a tail wag for the King, keeping a distance yet from the red ruler after noting the timid streak that seemed to run within the two-toned youngster who stayed close to his father's foreleg. A glance was spared for the pups along with a complacent smile, a bit of her comfort returned knowing that soon she would have her own. "They are lovely," she remarked admiringly, just a little noting the peculiar appearance of the larger female pup compared to the boy. Almost she asked whether the others would be arriving with their mother, but seeing an opportunity to voice her own circumstances to her leader she took it. "I wish to inform you," she stated with just a slight hesitation, hushing her voice a little for privacy, "that I shall be expecting my own here soon." Surely he had noticed and would understand what she meant. "I have taken Bane as my mate. And I carry his pups." It was not exactly how she had anticipated breaking the news, but feeling as if she had waited too long already there was no time like the present. Golden eyes skimming across her leader's face, she waited, hopeful of congratulations of her own.

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