by Autumn Dawn
Something suspiciously like tears sparkled in Leo's eyes. “Thank you,” she murmured. She cleared her throat and mounted up for the short ride to the port.
She was the only one who looked back as they rode away.
The hard rains came the next day, and continued without mercy for weeks, occasionally morphing into deadly hurricanes. No one was more relieved than Jasmine when they finally left. The hormones from her pregnancy had made her more and more irritable as each day passed, until even the indomitable Keilor began to keep a wary eye on her when he entered the room.
Rihlia gave birth to a healthy baby daughter, and shortly thereafter she was back on her feet, just as the doctors had promised.
"Glad to see that they're not born furry,” Jasmine teased, holding her charming little niece.
And then it was her turn.
After the first ten minutes of her high-pitched screaming during hard labor, Keilor turned an alarming shade of eggshell and quickly found some ear protection—earning a glare from the medic—but bravely stayed to await the birth.
Nearly ten months to the day of her return, Jasmine gave birth to a pair of twin boys. One was born with dark hair and his father's eyes.
The other, the second born, emerged wearing a tiny symbiont.
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