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She knew that it would be any time now, her belly was more than swollen with life, it was pulsating with it. Nephthys's paws carried her even though they were sore and swollen, she some how couldnt look happier than she was.

While she was leaving the safety of her pride, she didnt feel as if she was walking anywhere dangerous, just on the outskirts of the pride lived a friend of hers, to which is the reason why she was heading out of her home.

Just having finished off one of her kills, Nayeli was grooming herself happily. The sounds of someone approaching, her head perked up as her ears strained forward, as she watched to see would be coming to visit her, she was sure than Neph would be resting, getting ready for the big day.

But at the sight of the lioness in question, Nayeli was on her paws, and nuzzling the lioness's front leg in greeting. "Neph! What are you doing out here?" she asked, eyeing her belly which seemed to be full of movement.

"I came to see you silly." She laughed as she licked the little wolves head affectionately, she knew that after Nayeli's run in with the leopard, that she was having trouble hunting, and it worried Neph for her to be out here on her own.

"I thought, I could try and talk you into joining me in the pride." She said, it was a subject that they'd been talking about at no great lengths’ as Nayeli was still trying to find herself a mate, and loved to travel.

"Neph, you know I cant." She said with a shake of her head, she loved the lioness, and knew she was as excited as an aunt would be about the cubs she was carrying, but she wouldn't, couldnt give up her total freedom to her.

"Ive got goals for myself, and I doubt you've got any single males in there..for me anyways." She said with a laugh. "I love you for asking, for worrying, but I'll be alright."

Neph sighed, she eyed the little wolf once more, but didnt push on the subject, she knew how she felt, she had left her own family, and even her love to find and to find herself, prove herself worthy, she nodded. "Alright, but promise me..if you get with pups.." She didnt say anything further, letting her words trail off.

Nayeli, laughed. "Pups! They'd better have a father to go with them.." She said with a shake of her head, she wouldnt end up like her mother, though she loved her mother greatly, she knew it had to have been a great strain on her to raise them all on her own.

Neph laughed, with a shake of her head, “You never know, there are some suave creatures out there.” She said with a nod, she’d heard about rogues with silver tongues and females being left with litters of cubs, and no one to help them, it made her feel even more grateful to have a love like Moyo.

“Well, if that happens then I’ll come in long enough for my pups to be safe.” She said with a somber nod of her head, she’d like many mothers before her, and many after would protect her offspring no matter what that meant. “But I doubt I’ll fall prey to such charms.” She laughed, she lifted a paw, and placed it on Neph’s belly. “How are you feeling?” she asked curiously.

“Like a hippo.” She said with a sigh, she loved that she was starting a family with Moyo, but she was ready for them to come into the world already, her paws hurt, her lower back ached, and she was tried of feeling fat and useless. Though, she knew that she was neither of those things in truth, but she couldn’t help feeling like it! “Im sure, theyre plotting their escape any day now.” She said with a light smile.

“And then, you’ll pop..” The little wolf said with a grin, she could feel the cubs moving under her paw, it scared and made her insanely happy at the same time, which was such a conflict of emotions to handle all at once, she couldn’t even dream of feeling what Neph had to be feeling at this time.

“How will I get to see them?” she asked now, she knew that was one of the draw backs of being outside of the pride, but she just couldn’t give up her freedom yet.

“Well, a couple days after their born, I’ll bring them out to you. Moyo can help me carrying them, since he helped me make them.” Neph grinned with a wicked smile before she giggled like a school girl over her first crush, but Moyo was much, much more than that.

“I cant wait to see them, I bet they’ll be as beautiful as their mother is.” Nayeli grinned, she knew Neph really had no idea about how beautiful she was inside and out, and that only added to it. She never thought she’d be so close with a lion, but she loved Neph, she was her dearest friend and she treasured their rare friendship.

Neph laughed, “With my luck..theyre all going to look like their father!” She shook her head with a silly grin on her face, she slowly, carefully lowered herself down, so rest her paws that were screaming at her, the added weight was something they were starting to protest.

“I don’t think so, Im sure they will have plenty of you in them.” She nodded, she was sure of it, and she knew that Moyo and Neph would make beautiful cubs, they were such loving mates to one another that, they couldn’t have anything less than that beautiful love be reflected in their cubs.

“As long as they don’t look like my mother.” Neph said sadly, there werent many that knew the pain she held in her heart about her mother, but she had shared it with her little wolf friend, ,and she looked to her belly, hoping that a little mini mother didn’t lurk within her belly, to haunt her further.

Nayeli nuzzled Neph tenderly, “I don’t think that’s going to happen.” She knew how much Neph’s birth mother pained her, and she’d do anything to keep that sort of pain and hurt away from Neph.

Rising her to paws once again, Neph winced, she’d been in pain for the last several minutes. “Nayeli..I think.” She said in a huffed breath, “I need to get back.” She swallowed hard, as she began walking back towards the pride. “I’ll visit you in a couple days.” She said, it seemed that today was the day.

Nayeli quickly went to Neph’s side, and helped her walk to the pride, she didn’t pass the boarders, but she knew that Neph would be in capable paws once she was within the pride. She let out a howl of happiness, she couldn’t wait to see the cubs she knew that were coming.