what could go wrong? - open; hunting?

[rhosmari]

LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? THEN YOU GOT GOOD VISION
BOY, THIS BEAT HITS SO DIFFERENT.

Dust and bones was all she was finding as she attempted to find something for her and Arrow to eat. Expecting cubs was the last thing she had thought was going to be happening right now but it was so obvious now. She was heavy and swollen. Perhaps any day now they would be coming. But even though she was heavily pregnant her ribs were beginning to show. She was running on what energy she had left. This drought was not being kind to her or her people. These conditions seemed to be much more worse than what she had been expecting and she sighed softly as she tried to smell something, anything. But it was like the territory had become deserted. Was it going to become a desert next? The dust was in the air. The wind picking it up and making breathing a bit tougher than it should be.

Each over turned rock, each dried up bush she attempted to look through held nothing. No rabbits, no birds, no lizards, no deer, or water buffalo. Nothing. The woman felt like she could cry right now. Her head rose to the sky then, her jaws parting. "What did they do?! Cipactli please answer her!" Her voice was broken, jaw snapping shut and exhaustion clear in the way that her limbs shook and wobbled. Slowly she closed her eyes as there was only silence to greet her, it weighed so heavy. Had she been forsaken then? Was this just a punishment she had brought upon everyone else? The Luminary slowly opened her eyes and before her He stood. The amalgamation of many sharp tooth mouths, black scales that seemed to crawl along skin. Red and yellow eyes moving before they all turned to stare at her. The crocodile god seemed angry and almost immediately the woman bowed for how could she not. "How could They abandoned Something They see as Precious. His Conqueror." The Deity's voice seemed to be everywhere at once and she couldn't lift her eyes back up. Or maybe she did not want to.

"She has not conquered anything. She is trying to survive. Tanglewood is trying to survive." The woman spoke in a hushed tone before His laugh seemed to shake the very air. "She does not know it. But she has Conquered. She has Taken them. She came Here. She endured them. And now She Leads them. She has Completed Her Soul Journey. Now She will become Gifted." Warning bells lit up suddenly, instincually and her head jerked up to stare at the god. "Wait! She is pregnant, she is not well enough, not strong enough to take the Gift. Please just wait!" But there was no waiting was there. Not from the many mouth god who held the Void in His stomach.

The sudden pain that coursed through her body made her scream, a searing fron the top of her head to her paws and tail. Darkness surrounded her and she heard Him again. "If She lives, She will have power and be Reborn. If she dies...she will see Him Again." Her stomach flared to life suddenly, pain rippling through her stomach as she collapsed. Pain she had never felt before contracting and stressing. Her children. Her children. Someone please help them.

--- if the kiddos want what Cipactli has done to affect them go ahead! This is also the birthing thread!

— Reggan