My father's legacy

speech,



The woman was in heat. Great! It was hard enough for her right now without the added insecurity of knowing that any male within smelling distance probably thought she would make a nice distraction. It certainly didn’t help that part of that mentality came from the notion that she was most fertile right now…

Pups a notion that had never sat well with her. Motherhood had taken a great toll on her mother and in her own way Cirala was afraid what it might do to her. Besides of which… males had never tickled her fancy.

The orchard stretched out around her, familiar enough that it helped to put her mind at ease during what was already a stressful part of her life. Why couldn’t the damn cat have taken my uterus? Instead he had just taken the only woman Cirala could ever remember loving…