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[OOC Note: Though mortal reincarnation doesn't really exist in SoA, Codail believes in it. Also...after this post, Codail/Zimwi cubs owners and Sellion/Saiha cub owners, feel free to post!]

Codail had been smart. She'd been through this before, but this was her first time being without another to really aid her. But...she would make it. She had to. She would have NINE lives depending on her, if she had estimated correctly...ten if she counted her own.

The pale lioness had found a rather ingenious cave to 'den' in for the time being, until the new lives about to be born could walk about on their own. There were three 'rooms'; the largest was the very back with an entrance to it even her large-ish form could fit through pregnant, followed by a smaller one with a similar entrance, and finally the second-largest that led to the mouth of the cave. She currently resided in the very back, laying down on gathered moss as the pains of birthing came closer and closer together.

And then they hit a crescendo and the real pain began. Codail shut everything out except her task, glad she'd told her adopted cubs to be good in the front two rooms while she brought in their new siblings.

The first cub was a boy nearly identical to her...she cleaned him and nuzzled him to her belly. And named him before pain hit her again. "You are Feidhlim...never forget that, my sweet one."

Pain rushed over her again as the first of his siblings came into the world, leaving her nearly breathless. She repeated the process of cleaning and moving. "Lugh is your name, dear one." He was dark, the color of his father's mane...

More pain and the third cub came into the world. She felt a stab of emotional pain at this one...he looked like Muscail. Oh where was her dearest twin now? She cleaned him and moved him to join his older brothers, chuckling as he already started sniffing about. "Caidéiseach is your name, my curious one."

A fourth set of birthing pains overtook her and another boy rushed into the world. He looked like a backwards version of the boy born before him. Though his gray was closer to his father's mane. "Well...you are Chicha'Jibari. Never forget."

What she hoped were the last birthing pains spasmed through her and left her bewildered at the cub they left behind. A little girl, with marking like her own in her father's gray...and green fur. Codail was afraid the little one had died in her womb, and cleaned her quickly...only to find her daughter was breathing after all, and seemed healthy. With a sigh of relief, she nosed her to join her brothers. "And you, silly one, are Talamh. For I think Father Earth has claimed you."

One last set of pains rid her of the afterbirth (something she quickly ate), and she lay there, exhausted and happy. Cubs...she had cubs of her own body once again. For Codail, that overcame any sorrow she had before...at least for the moment. Her voice wavered a bit as she called out to the cheetah cubs.

"Dearhearts...come and meet your new siblings!"

[Codail/Zimwi cubs are now free to RP! <3 They've ICly been born!]

Lugh had response at first; the small lion seeming still and quiet for several minutes, before he moved, body shaking, towards warmth.

No words came of his maw, nothing but a noise, crying, seeking a meal, seeking heat, seeking love. He soon found his mother's side, and the crying subsided as he found her, and the smell of another calmed him, mouth seeking. He soon found that which he wished in his mother's side, and began to nurse greedily.

Chincha did not move from his mothers warmth like the others. He did not squirm, or fight his way around.. He was cold, and he was scared, and his little heart was beating rapidly for such a new young fellow.

His eyes were closed, his ears unable to trulyhear much of anything. He was blind, deaf, and for all he knew, he was about to die..

Until he felt the sensation in his belly to push forward to his mother belly. When he was properly leeched onto his mother, the little cub began to soothe, and he almost drifted back off, while still feeding from his mother.