Wake Me Up {Birthing Thread}

Nalyda would then feel another contraction. Her eyes widening when she happened to feel pain, but, not your average kicking type pain, the pain that death was around, and there was nothing you could do. She pushed a couple times when another pup was born, looking to the little bundle. She happened to see that it was a male and that he happened to be a runt as well. Nalyda licked him clean and whimpered, nudging him, but he did not move. This one pup was a stillborn. Nalyda hung her head and whimpered, standing up and walking out of the den to be alone for a minute.

"Kar, watch over the pups for a minute," she would say, walking out of the den and sitting outside, looking out to the sky as she said a silent prayer for the deceased pup that had died while he was still inside of her. Every moment, she wished that she could have done something to save her stillborn son, even trading her life for his own if it meant bringing him into the world alive. After a couple minutes, she walked back inside the den and lied down, bringing the pups over to suckle, also, the ebony and grey dame grabbed the small pup by the scruff and brought it close to her chest, licking him and sharing her love to him almost as if he were alive. "I'm sorry, little one. May your soul find peace in the other world..." She closed her eyes and kept her head down slightly, bringing the pups head close to her own.