maybe who we were then is shattered, but who we are in the end is what matters
"And more to come," Hotaru laughs, a little frazzled but adjusting easily enough to the idea. The size of her belly alone was sort of a hard to miss clue. "Thank you," follows the woman out of the room, her absence giving a privacy to the pair that remain that she appreciates.
Remi's calm is like bedrock to her by time it reaches through the bond, any remaining notions of hurricanes distant and far above the ground. It steadies her, enough to laugh quietly in the foxfire light of the room when the pieces don't click together in totality before her eyes, behind his own. While she is asleep he will have nothing else to do but think. The Valkyrie doesn't envy that fate.
"She will. And once we're to that point, it's faster than you think." Hands squeeze anew, before propping enough to take the robe Vai offers with a smile. "Then sleep I shall. Doctor's orders." It is short work then to dress, drink, and settle back into the pillows. Remi's seaglass green eyes are the last thing she sees before everything else is darkness.
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Of course waking is worse, because with it comes the reality of pain. Noise bubbles halfway out of her throat before she's even fully conscious, shut down before it can escape but still a strained shriek inside her chest. "Good morning Greatwood," she hisses between her teeth, head flopping back against the pillows. The stabbing sensation in her navel refuses to be ignored however, and her legs instinctively pull up, knees tenting the bedsheets.
Blearily searching for Vai and Remi, Hotaru shakes as the contraction passes. "I'm assuming it's push time?" Already she is preparing, sinking deeper into the mattress in anticipation of the next contraction, aware it will be coming swiftly now.
Remi's calm is like bedrock to her by time it reaches through the bond, any remaining notions of hurricanes distant and far above the ground. It steadies her, enough to laugh quietly in the foxfire light of the room when the pieces don't click together in totality before her eyes, behind his own. While she is asleep he will have nothing else to do but think. The Valkyrie doesn't envy that fate.
"She will. And once we're to that point, it's faster than you think." Hands squeeze anew, before propping enough to take the robe Vai offers with a smile. "Then sleep I shall. Doctor's orders." It is short work then to dress, drink, and settle back into the pillows. Remi's seaglass green eyes are the last thing she sees before everything else is darkness.
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Of course waking is worse, because with it comes the reality of pain. Noise bubbles halfway out of her throat before she's even fully conscious, shut down before it can escape but still a strained shriek inside her chest. "Good morning Greatwood," she hisses between her teeth, head flopping back against the pillows. The stabbing sensation in her navel refuses to be ignored however, and her legs instinctively pull up, knees tenting the bedsheets.
Blearily searching for Vai and Remi, Hotaru shakes as the contraction passes. "I'm assuming it's push time?" Already she is preparing, sinking deeper into the mattress in anticipation of the next contraction, aware it will be coming swiftly now.
