Hail the Stork

*Crusade* · 03-30-2013, 07:42 PM

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Cifer! Most of the year he was little more than black dots and a pair of emerald eyes, but come the summer thaw his white coat stood out brilliantly. Crusade couldn?t decide how she liked him better: as a green eyed ghost drifting across the snow, or as a startling figure of alabaster. Creator Above! What a tangle her mind was in! She?d forgotten how distracted and mushy she could be when she was in love.

And she?d forgotten how absolutely wonder it was.

Crusade picked up the pace. It had been only a small count of minutes since she?d been laying in the sunshine, but now she was nearly barreling into her mate. Maybe it was how fit and active everyone kept, or maybe it was the slowly ingrained sense of family, but that was the interesting thing about Glaciem ? nevermind how many mountains or miles of tundra, the wolves always seemed to be able to find eachother. Might as well have been two magnets.

There was a brief second where Crusade stood there breathing like a fish, then a smile stretched over her muzzle. Her eye sparkled, her tail whirled, her paws danced in place and suddenly her tongue was snaking out to plant a wolf kiss on Cifer?s nose. ?Cifer! We?re going to be parents!? Her excitement tumbled out before she was even sure of the words. ?I felt it! I felt them! We?re gonna have puppies, Cifer!?

Crusade was practically glowing. Sure she was worried ? of course she was! Her last child had died after it had barely taken it?s first breaths. But of course she had some reason why; fighting a war while carrying a child wasn?t exactly safe. Yet at the same time ? she really hadn?t had a choice. This time was going to be different! It was Crusade ? so she wasn?t going to confine herself to the cave or anything ? but she wasn?t going to be hunting anything larger than a caribou calf, no more sprints to the top of the mountain and no more training sessions with the pack.

This got her thinking: ?Creator Above! Cifer we need to talk to Asheni about herbs and eating ? and Gargie! He needs to know! Oh! And the girls!? Crusade shook her head. As any of her pack mates knew she wasn?t one to get overwhelmed easily but this ? this was beyond overwhelmed?.but in a happy way.

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