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"He looks fine to me," Rakawa voiced with a laugh, "I'm sorry to have imposed by coming here with him so later-"

Her father spun around and pat his daughter on the shoulder saying, "It's perfectly fine, we actually have a second guest who troubled herself to come all this way."

Rakawa could not think who, but then her father pulled out a picture and showed her an image of the person. It was Annagora. Yet this time she was much bigger than before.

"I'd be careful around her Rakawa she's gotten very protective of her space and has put on a lot of weight, so she gets offended easily right now." Her father warned.

He looked back at Will and asked, "Do you have anything to carry in? I think Rakawa might be going off to see her friend." Rakawa had already started to step inside the house cause she could not believe what she had seen. Annagora had put on too much weight and as such had needed to be wheeled around in a wheel barrow now. It worried Rakawa as she went to try and comfort her friend. Having babies was good, but there would always be limits to how many one could have.

Rakawa was just about to go in and ask Anagora how she was doing when she heard her husband say, "Is there a place where I can put our stuff honey?" She wanted to answer him, but her mother suddenly hugged Will and started doting over him.

"MOM!" Rakawa complained as she waddled over to her husband, "Hugging is my trademark!"

She went around to Will's side and started hugging him from there. She closed her eyes and pressed her belly against his ribs, whispering, "Has she met our baby yet? I am certain I can go and have my belly checked at this point if she really wants to."

Rakawa realized as her mother began to play with her belly she was crushing Will so she let him go. As she stood over him she asked, "Did I break any ribs? I've lost a small portion of my strength since we've first met, but I'm still afraid I can break you like a twig. I'm-I'm sorry..." She bent down to Will's eye level and kissed him on the cheek.

"Mommy," she said as she turned to her mother, "Please get the first aid kit for Willie-poo." Her mother would likely wonder why she kept calling her this and her father daddy, unfortunately, it was a bad habit of hers that she had gained since she was a small child.

"Yes," Rakawa stated as she placed her large hands over her stomach. After seeing the wild pig her father had caught it had reinvigorated the almost seemingly endless hunger she suffered.

"But before we go let's go see what Anagora's like. She's probably due soon if she can't move around much and is getting heavily protective of her area. I want to see how she acts so I can reduce problems around you." she told him as well.

Rakawa smiled at her husband as she walked with him into the house her parents owned. "I hope you give a really good foot and belly massage. I definitely do need it."

When she stepped inside she was surprised to find Annagora lying on a bed with her belly facing up underneath a heavy layer of covers. Rawaka let go of Will's hand and ran over to her because of the obvious issue she saw when entering the room. Annagora had gained a ton of weight since she had last sent Will and Rakawa a picture and the belly she sported looked like something that could hold as many as three grown men inside of it.

As she approached Annagora she grabbed her hand and knelt down next to the head of her bed. Annagora turned her head to reveal a face with super chubby cheeks and bright eyes. "Hello, Rakawa, I'm sorry I can't get up to greet you, but the doctor says I cannot move at all now. He told me if I did I might have trouble with my children since I've neared the time of their birthing."

Rakawa watched her friend try to pat the top of her belly, but all she could do was pat the sides of it. She had lost any sign of where he hips and legs were and looked like a giant ball kind of. It made Rakawa cry a little as she remembered back to when her friend had challenged her to gain more weight than her. Now that she was meeting her for the first time in a while she noted this was not what she wanted happening between her and Will.

"Well, I'd like someone to rub the top of my belly. I have three or four children I'm carrying, but I went against my doctor's orders and put on too much weight. Now I can't even rub my belly."

Rakawa sighed and said to Will in a hushed voice, "This was why I was concerned about getting into an "eating" contest throughout my pregnancy with Anna. She suffers the same issue I do and does not know when to stop eating."

Rakawa noticed a bag of crackers next to her friends pillow and snatched them up. She opened it and began to eat them as she said, "She'll hide snacks from you like I do. For example, if you check the one of the compartments of your bag Will. I found a place where I could hide snacks."

Rakawa continued to eat the crackers she had taken from Annagora. While she was doing that Anngora relaxed and began to purr like a cat saying, "I've not had the ability to rub my belly for the last month. I'll tell you as a reward what my tattoo on my belly means I suppose then." She smiled at him as she felt a kick from her children and stated, "I think they like you, which is good cause the tattoo you're rubbing your hands over means good health and they're likely responding to it. It's shaped like a hippo since hippos stay healthy by lying out under the sun in the mud; that's their natural environment. You must be asking about that though cause you're wondering more about Rakawa's tattoo on her back."

"I know, but thanks to my tattoo and my eating habits I think I made them too healthy." She stated softly as she closed her eyes and pat the side of her belly. "My children can now move around a lot more than I can, but as I said it's cause I now wear a special tattoo that signifies my children's future healthiness."

She opened her eyes again as she heard Will complain to Rakawa and laughed. Rakawa stopped eating and crumpled up the bag as she realized she had eaten all the food inside it. As Rakawa turned towards a trash can behind her Anna whispered, "Um, Will, I think that's your name. I heard it from Rakawa's parents. Each woman in the tribe gets a special set of tattoos in their life as long as they stay near the village and participate with it. The more you are at a village the more tattoos you can collect. The idea is to collect as many as you can because the more you have the more protection you get in the world. It's a tradition that makes us quite different than you outsiders and we take pride in it, but I feel bad for Rakawa. I only see her with a bird tattoo which means the only thing your wife is really protected against is falling on the floor and such."

She pointed to a spot on the back of her neck and to a spot on her shoulder where an elephant and snake rested respectively. "I have these two tattoos which make it harder for me to forget things and easier for me to reach things in even the smallest of places."