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Date Posted: 15:35:26 03/24/02 Sun
Author: Korats
Subject: After Redwood left Terole and Akartis began to govern...

The Original snarls, ears back and eyes glaring, at her mate. Drael, more than a foot higher than the angry red, steels his nerves against flinching. She's the only Korat he'll ever fear, and it would figure she'd blame him for her immobility. Redwood shoves forward, a lightning-fast movement dragging her mate's head down to her level. Whiskers tangling, the two Korats stare into each other's brilliant eyes, a battle of wills ensuing. However, Drael has the advantage-- he fights on the side of logic. After a long, long moment, the red whips her muzzle aside and begins a resentful pacing. The black knows better than to try to placate her, and seats himself, unable to do anything but admire his mate. After another long moment of pacing, abruptly the red sprawls out on the ground, the graceful poise only barely marred by the hardly-noticable bulge in her belly. Drael rises and moves to her side, dipping his muzzle down to caress hers, and receives a growl in return.

Redwood has good cause to be angry; for the next month, she cannot hunt, nor fight. The growing lives in her womb must be protected. Pregnant with her second litter in all her long lifetime, even she recognizes the need for healthy, strong cubs. Akartis is the only one Of her Line. Soon, she bets, he'll choose a mate. She knows some Korats reside in Terole. Then, there'll be more Of her Line cubs. But still, as long as she remains healthy and alive, Redwood has a duty to produce as many cubs as she can, and raise them to be the best of the Korat species. But a month without violence will be tough.

...One Month Later...

Redwood rumbles her pleasure. Six cubs. Three reds, all male; two blacks, one male and one female; and a male tan. Drael beams with pale silver eyes down at the newly-born litter, currently being groomed thoroughly by their mother. Though, when she looks up, her expression is troubled. "When they are weaned, I return to Terole," she states in a low voice. Drael rears back, shocked. "You have more loyalty towards a fugitive's planet than to your own species?!" The exclamation is a mistake, for instantly Redwood's tailblade is at his throat and she hisses, all menace. "Don't you dare say that." The thread in her tone is all he needs to back up and out of the overhanging den, disappearing immediately from sight. Relaxing with his absence, Redwood grooms the cubs again, looking at them fondly. Whispering now, she murmurs, "Your father will take good care of you, and raise you properly. Shall I ever have a red female, though, I shall raise her myself." Jaw dropping in a fierce grin for that possibility, the Original yawns broadly. Then, she sleeps.

A mere week after her litter is weaned, Redwood tries to return to Terole, stopped forcefully by a Dragon-Snake marauder and his mercenaries of Demons and Spiralla, not to mention a few Raptor packs for allies. There she is detained, Drael caring avidly for the rapidly-growing cubs, until a rescue party made of Terolians, Korats, and Heifias frees her. In the ensuing battle, many die, but ultimately Redwood is able to go to Terole, and back to her son.

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