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Date Posted: 12/22/07 11:41pm
Author: Dane ()
Subject: Something wicked this way comes..

(The final month of his mate's pregnancy had gone by somewhat slower than the former.. not that he was complaining. OKay, so he was complaining.. but not for the reason's one might think. Sleeping in the woods and hunting morning, noon and night were second nature to him, he absolutely thrived on living in his natural state. Catering to Bree's every waking whim was becoming natural to him as well, and he was becoming somewhat preemptive of her moods, knowing when to coddle and when to back off.. that was not an issue between them, at least not to complain about. It was the fact that his mate's overall health and comfort were declining to a point where he could no longer push it away as something that would pass once the eggs were laid. His daily routine consisted of morning baths in the hot spring, a breakfast hunt, an hour or so nap with Bree, then a couple hours of pacing under the overhanging cliff edge, worrying himself half to death. The headaches were a normal thing now, almost constant, as were the backaches and inability to get comfortable.. but now there was this general lethargy that was driving him nuts. Durgan couldn't explain any of it other than the fact that she was very young to be bearing young.. and that he couldn't find anything physically wrong with her. In other words, a general shrug. It made him want to snap a few trees in half to vent the initial anger, then shake his brother until he coughed up a useful answer. This morning had been worse than the other by far, and he was finding it harder and harder to see her laying there, curled in the nest, uncomfortable and in pain. Hearing her soft grunts as she moved and knowing that she was trying to hide some of it from him only made it worse, and he knew his hovering was getting on her nerves, but he knew no other way to behave. Sighing, he emerged from the walkway that led into their cove and crossed to the firepit, laying down his catch. As per his typical routine, he went to the spring and washed up before going to her side to check her out. Something smelled different about her today, which was why his nostrils were the first part of his body to touch her as he came over to the nest. He sniffed his way up her back to her neck, then lipped at her feathers, purring as he did. He had already said his morning greeting to her, and could only say 'how are you' so many times before being bitten, so he just sort of circled her, scenting her lipping at her, as though he could prod the answer out of her.)

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