A new Chapter

[Rhonya]

A soft voice filled the hut we were staying in, sounding somewhere slightly above me.
“Ghrm.. Kyra'..? “ the voice said, and sleepily I opened my eyes. Above me I found the face of the male that had me in his arms gently, sitting on a pile of furs, cradling me as I was half asleep. It was a face I’d gotten to know well the past few months, the missing tusk, the red eyes, the dark, coarse hairs of his beard slightly streaked with grey, even though he tried pulling those hairs out all the time. Then I noticed his remaining tusk streaked with blood, and his hand, raised a little next to his face. Blood was dripping down from a gash in his palm, the sharp metallic smell of it entering my nose now as I sniffed slightly. I looked back to his eyes questioningly.

“’Mm? Wat?” I responded softly. He was still looking down at me, looking a little thoughtful. As he spoke his voice sounded calm, soft and deep.
“Would you.. Mrm.. Do me th'honour o'sharin' yer blood with me..?”

For a moment I didn’t know how to respond. A lot of thoughts ran through my mind, was it too soon? The pup wasn’t even born yet, it hadn’t been that long… Did he ask it out of pity? Or did he ask it out of love, or lust… I had to mentally slap myself on the fingers there and stop my thoughts. It wasn’t fair, thinking that of him. Mozrogg had shown me again and again that he meant it, to protect me and stay with me, that he accepted me because of â€"me-, and not because of the pup in my stomach and my messed up state after the breakup with Sadok. Did I want this? Was I sure of it?

My head told me to be cautious, trust was easily broken as I learned time and time again, but… No, I wanted this. I trusted him fully with all my heart, which he had managed to conquer so fast. He said he didn’t want to keep me on a leash, but even so that leash was there, pulling me back towards him every time, keeping us linked. And I didn’t mind.

I felt my lips curl into a wide smile as I kept my eyes on the face above me, and nodded to him.
“Do ya even still need ta ask..? O' course I will.” I said, and watched as his chest heaved in a heavy sigh of relief, his own smile appearing again. Had he thought I would refuse..? Sometimes it still surprised me how utterly emotional he could be, how caring and gentle, despite his huge size and the way he acted normally. The big, bulky tough warrior, but sometimes just a big, fluffy bear. It was a good comparison after all. He motioned with his hand to his tusk, but I simply ripped open my own palm by biting down on it with my own smaller tusks. The pain woke me up a little again, blood red droplets welling up from the wound and running down over my palm, dripping down towards my stomach.

Mozroggs hand reached to grab my own firmly in his and I flinched in reaction to his tight grasp. Suddenly he leaned in and pressed his lips to mine in a firm, passionate kiss that stole my breath away. As fast as it had started, he pulled back again slightly to softly utter some words, his lips brushing my own softly.
“Mrm.. You make m'happy, Kyrazha.”
“ 'Rmm.. Love ya, m'bear…” came my response softly after. His lips pulled back over his tusks and fangs in a wide grin.
“Th'bear who fell in love with th'tigress.. Sure there be a song in there somewhere.. But aye, let's jus'..Sleep, fer about a hundred years..” he said, cradling me more against his chest in his arms.
“Dat winter hibernation actually soun's pretty good.”
“See, I be full o'good ideas. Now sleep m'wild-cat, Rest in m'arms.”
And with those words still resonating in my head, I felt myself drifting off again, our fingers linked together, the blood shared in the palms of our hands.



I awoke not too long after, Mozrogg sleeping on the furs beside me. His arms where still wrapped around me, one hand resting on my stomach. Slowly I opened my eyes and just eyed his form over. He looked peaceful, for now… He’d been having odd dreams lately, and often I’d awake with him trashing in the furs next to me, his form sweaty and breathing hard, as if he’d been running from something.
Very gently I detangled myself from him without waking him up, pulling one of the furs a little more over him. Pain flared down my legs as I managed to stand, creeping up my lower back and up through my spine, nearly making me fall over again, but I clenched my teeth and remained standing, making my way outside of the hut carefully. The pains had gotten worse the past week, even though Mozrogg did his best to make things as comfortable for me as possible, it didn’t help much. I hadn’t really told him, he didn’t need to know.

Breathing in the fresh evening air as I stood outside the hut now, my arms wrapped around my large stomach, the pain dulled again slowly, until it was just a gentle throbbing at my lower back. I looked up at the starry sky, thinking back on the conversation we had with Srelok earlier this evening. How Mozrogg had joked that we didn’t do anything as it was supposed to be, no order, no rules. It was kind of true… I lifted my hand, looking down at the still raw, open wound, dirty with dried up blood. A bloodoath of mates, but no hunt. Courting had been a tease and exchange of jabs and jokes, bites and short hunts while he kept me in the back due to my pregnancy. We’d simply grown closer and closer, without any real proper flirting or anything. It had just…happened.

It surprised me still, but I wasn’t complaining. I felt complete. Mozrogg respected my wild side, he even urged me on to show it more, to take him along in it and share it with him, something I could never really do with Sadok, with him being so fragile. Right now, -I- was the fragile one. But it was very comforting somehow to have the enormous form of Mozrogg behind me. I actually felt small, compared to him, and I wasn’t even that tiny of stature myself.

I looked back into the hut and the sleeping form of the male orc inside. My mate now, I suppose I should say. Even though it felt odd, saying that again. We’d manage, we’d make it work. I would show him I could compete with him well enough, keep up with him in hunts and runs, fights and everything else. An amused grin appeared on my face. Once this pup was born… I’d show him.

[Mozrogg]

<3 So cute. Loved it!