Viper had been out on her daily run around the island which was a normal feat for her ever since she joined Chimera on the island. She hadn't been feeling quite right or herself lately, but she was a tough girl and kept moving past the feelings and ignoring them. Her lower stomach had been feeling weird, harder, maybe she felt a little queasy here and there but even if it was something to worry about, she didn't.

She had noticed too that she was slowly getting bigger, not too much now but the sudden change just made her believe that she needed to run or train more. Which didn't really make sense but she didn't question it.

Around a lap on the island, she came to the shore just along the line of traffic to the den, stopping rather suddenly as the sick feeling overcame her and she immediately retched in the sands, only stopping to quickly bury the vomit but the gagging feeling still didn't subside even after everything had left her. She growled quietly, waiting for the sickness to go away so she could go back to her run.

"Viper"

Siren was watching Viper the whole time, as she came around the corner towards the dens her scent wafted her direction and dual toned eyes brightened. The young princess watched the woman, certain in her scent and now certain in her symptoms as she wretched and buried her bile. She wasn’t close enough to hold a true conversation, but Siren lifted herself from relaxing outside the dens. It was just about chill enough to sit out here with a nice fire, snuggled up to Dalila.

Delicate paws brought her closer to Viper, this time she actually had something to say. This time she wanted Viper’s attention. She looked the woman up and down, no expert on her physique but she was confident in her diagnosis. "Viper.” She addressed her directly, trying to find her gaze as she struggled to regain control of her nauseated stomach. "You’re pregnant.” Siren didn’t allow the fact to sink in for very long before she continued, "I’ll give you herbs to help your stomach.” The kindness wasn’t for Viper, but for Chimera. If he wanted his woman to be pregnant Siren had a duty to take care of her and his unborn. If he didn’t there were other precautions to take, but that could wait for when he returned.

"Siren Primrose Klein"

She gave Siren a side eye as she approached, she never really cared much for her. It was probably mutual. But as 'all about me' as Viper was, she did somehow have the respect for Chimera to behave somewhat civilly with at least Siren. Though, Dalila and Aliana were on the chopping block for sure. Even after being told to leave Dalila alone. But there hadn't been another opportunity since then. No harsh feelings at least.

Stepping over her buried vomit as if she was hiding it if only in humiliation, she faced Siren when she spoke. Viper's brows furrowed, "I don't...understand." She did kind of have the gist of pregnancy, having babies, and the sort. But she had never thought it would happen to her. Maybe she just thought she was completely exempt from it. She had been too young to learn when she was with Aranea, and she hadn't really listened when she got the lesson from that girl in Fireside. But she probably didn't believe Siren if she actually understood, that was the final point.

"Viper"

If Siren hadn’t seen what she had just witnessed she never would have approached Viper. Not at all. Their first and last interaction was all Siren needed for the rest of her life. She was concerned for her brother though, not the woman she approached to offer her help. The princess would do anything for her brother, including uncomfortably offering Viper assistance.

The women’s expression scrunched and scrutinized as Siren spoke, both of them ignoring the vomit that was left buried in the sand. Viper spoke uncertainly, she did not understand the words coming from Siren’s mouth. The Klein girl knew she was smarter than Viper, at least she acted less on impulse and instinct than the red marked woman. Siren narrowed her gaze, she spoke plainly how could she misunderstand? This meeting certainly did not improve her respect towards her brother’s woman.

"I can make your stomach feel better.” She went on, figuring it one, was not her responsibility to explain what pregnancy was and how it happened, and two that Viper would even believe her to begin with. This was the easiest way to continue, to offer her something physical that was easier to understand.

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"Siren Primrose Klein"

Viper shook her head when Siren repeated herself. Viper knew she wasn't quite intellectual, and through lessons with Chimera she was trying to at least make her dialect better. But it was clear, or should have been, that Viper wasn't normal.

"No." She spoke in the shake of her head, "I can't have a baby, my mother was really young when she had me." As if Aranea's teen pregnancy was hereditary, like Viper had a time frame she had to get pregnant. And there was, but not necessarily in the way she was suggesting. And besides, her heat season hadn't shown true to it's nature. Though maybe that was the same for her mother after all too.

Siren may have had to examine her further for her to understand, Viper would be willing. She may not have really liked Siren, or even respected her, but she did have some sort of trust in her. She did live on the island, she was Chimera's sister. And Viper may have needed some sort of snap back into reality.

Healing Seasonal Prompt
Total Word Count 957 words
Word Count Goal: 1500 words

"Viper"

Siren knew Viper wasn’t normal, that much was beyond clear and added to the mystery of why her brother decided to take her as the closest thing she believed he’d have as a mate. She knew that he loved her, and the feeling was mutual but it was different. Different from the way he loved Viper and different from the way that she loved Dalila. Siren tried not to think about it all, especially with how the two of them had parted last, she hadn’t forgotten about the kiss Chimera gave her as his parting gift. Nor the struggle with her feelings about it. Viper’s ignorance was a good distraction though.

She cautioned another step forward as Viper refuted her, no she wasn’t pregnant. Wasn’t pregnant because her mom gave birth young? Siren didn’t see the woman’s logic behind her statement and almost ignored her. "I don’t see how your mother’s age when she gave birth would affect you…?” Siren asked with a raised brow but didn’t actually wait for an answer. "Either way, you smell pregnant, you act pregnant with the way your stomach is acting.” That’s all Siren could do was provide the facts as she saw them. "And you’ve been having sex with my brother like you want to get pregnant.” She finished as her dual toned gaze wandered over Viper’s slightly swollen belly. She had a nose, she had ears, thankfully she hadn’t seen anything, but she knew what was going on behind closed doors. Siren was a naive child for longer than she should have been, but the world swiftly pulled away her blinders when she reached adulthood.
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"Siren Primrose Klein"

The dumb, narrowed gaze from Viper was probably nothing new at this point. She may have felt this way too, not that she really noticed herself but she looked mostly offended by everything Siren was saying. Logical, truth, her knowledge wasn't wrong. But Viper was reading her voice as offensive. It was actually very hard to get Viper not to like you, but she was feeling hateful towards everyone on the island. Though Chimera owned her in some way, she was feeling like she owned him in some way. That was far from a truth, if she had ever voiced that to him he'd probably let her know just how wrong she was. But Viper felt as she felt and did what she wanted. Except for right now. She had to hold herself back from hurting Siren, only for Chimera.

"It's what Chimera wants, isn't it?" Her voice was less agitated than her expression, and more like a genuine question. Like Siren would understand the sexual needs of her brother. Maybe she did, maybe she didn't. Viper was too naive to notice. Viper ignored Chimera's time with Aliana, Viper ignored anything that would make her feel something other than the love that she felt she had been missing her whole life that she felt with Chimera. So whatever he did in his own time, she kept herself blinded by it. It could have been clear just from when she moved past Aliana and Chimera in the den when she was introduced to the new slave, but Viper was exceedingly hard to read, even though most of her interactions were silent with Chimera.

Healing Seasonal Prompt
Total Word Count 1516 words
Word Count Goal: 1500 words (Met)

"Viper"

Viper didn’t argue, but Siren had a feeling it was because her mind couldn’t be made up with anything to retort back besides what she said. As though Siren was berating her with what she said. The princess shrugged in answer, she didn’t know what Chimera wanted but she would have assumed the same. Maybe he had intended on impregnating the woman. Siren wasn’t here to judge her brother’s actions, nor Viper’s. "You know better than I do,” she spoke almost dismissively as she approached a little closer.

"You can’t be very far along, but it’ll be easy to set you up with herbs and such to keep your stomach settled and help the babies develop.” If that was truly what Chimera wished. She’d hold back everything but that which would keep mom most comfortable. For Chimera’s sake. Siren stepped forward, silently requesting Viper’s permission to touch her. She wanted a little closer of a look, not that Viper had any reason to trust her. She could trust Siren would do nothing to adversely affect Chimera, that included sabotaging the mother of his children.

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"Siren Primrose Klein"

Viper really only had sex with Chimera because it was what he wanted. She didn't even understand sex really until her and Chimera had done it together. She still didn't even really understand sex. Clearly. Even though Siren was making sense of her being pregnant, Viper may have been accepting it right in this moment, but who knows what she would think tomorrow? Next week? Next month? Just another thing for her to ignore. Another thing for her to run off.

"Okay." She said as Siren again offered to give her herbs. She didn't flinch when Siren came closer, looking down on her before her eyes moved forward towards the trees of the island while Siren took a closer look. But while she was maybe believing Siren now, she wouldn't say anything to Chimera, or Aliana. Though she would be pretty dumb to think she could get by without anyone noticing, especially while Siren had noticed so easily.

"Viper"

Siren was slowly discovering the facts of life, as a healer in training she needed to know the ins and outs of all aspects of life, including the process of procreation. She knew the acts Dalila performed with her would never result in children, but if Chimera ahd given into temptation and took he the day he left she likely would have been in the same situation as Viper. The woman was a little older, but her parts still worked and Chi was young and virulent. Obviously.


Viper relented to Siren’s words, she didn’t resist and didn’t argue as Siren stepped forward to take a closer look. Siren carefully lifted a paw to Viper’s stomach, pressing gently to get a better idea of what was going on beneath. She really wasn’t very far and beyond a bit of firmness there was no way to really tell. Her scent had changed and that was her biggest indicator. She didn’t take very long to observe, but she was quite content in her check up of the near wild woman.

"Alright, come on. I’ll get you set up with some medicinals.” Siren gestured for Viper to follow as she led the way towards her den.


"Siren Primrose Klein"