She thought as she waited of how she would break the news to her children about the surprise additions that would soon be made to their family, the freshly created pups that were currently forming inside of her. Would they be excited? Confused? Would they possibly grow jealous? She could hardly wait to see them, to hear their responses and know what they thought. And then Bane... It was almost painful to think of him knowing that he could not be there this time, that for these pups she would be alone. True, she had friends - Destruction and even Aeil had seemed nice - but those were not the presences that she would wish to be there with her through the pregnancy.
The form of the greyscale queen scattered her thoughts and as she came to join her Tahlia quietly nodded her head in greeting as she gathered them again. No formality. No cordiality save for the addition of "Miss" before her name. Tahlia tried to assume she had stopped the woman in the middle of something to excuse her shortness but already irked by the situation at hand it was difficult. She bit back the curt retort that came immediately to mind - So lovely to see you too, Queen Loccian - and replied in the same direct manner, "I have recently been to see Bane." She assumed that alone would not have been too much of a surprise; they were still married after all. "Nothing should have come of it," she stated, still surprised herself. What odd, twisted luck they seemed to have! "But I believe something has. I believe I am pregnant again." As happy news as such an event should have been, Tahlia only felt anxiety and did her best to keep those feelings hidden from her queen, lacking the proper sort of trust for such an open admission of insecurity.
