Midnight Surprises

Bane's gaze showed concern as his mate lay unmoving on her side, shakes and tremors raking through her body. The inquiry about if he should howling for a healer was shot down, and the elder couldn't help but feel slightly more worried at the birth. Tahlia's voiced reassurance to her mate that everything was going to be ok. Bane was anything but reassured. All it would take was for one pup, and they both didn't know how many there were, to come out the wrong way. Tahlia whispered his name and Bane hovered over his mate with a clenched jaw. "Yes Tahlia?" The elder's mate didn't speak, and so he kept quiet his curious prying of what she was going to say.

The two wolves occupied their den all by themselves, at the moment, no outside help coming or wanted as the she-wolf gave birth. Bane took to observing the lengthy process in silence. First a female, one who was grabbed up and cleaned by Tahlia. The little she-pup was placed close to the she's wolfs stomach to feed. Number two came out by that time, abnormally quick for some reason, and received the same process as his sister of having the blood cleaned off and dried to the state of a feathery puffball. "Kailos." Bane mumbled before picking up the female wiggling her way towards him and placed her at his mates side. The two pups were left to nurse, the elder wolf planning on let Tahlia name the female. The elder gave a yawn and planned to clean the den of as much blood as he could in morning. Bane lay down so that the pups were between his chest and Tahlia's, and closed his eye.

-Bane is asleep-