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Reborn After Betrayal, Claimed by the White Lion - New - Ep.20 SM
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00:00My sister poisoned all ten of my children, then she pushed me off a cliff.
00:04I died on the rocks below, and I woke up on the morning of the choosing ceremony,
00:09staring at the same sky, breathing the same cold air.
00:13I lay still for a moment, letting it settle.
00:16We'd arrived on the beast continent together, my sister Eve and I.
00:19Two women dropped into a world with one rule.
00:23Rank decided everything.
00:25S rank was once in a century.
00:27A rank, once in a generation.
00:29The chieftain had lined up every unmated male in the settlement.
00:33We were supposed to choose.
00:34Eve told me to take the serpent shifter.
00:36Serpents lay eggs, easier than giving birth.
00:39She smiled like she was doing me a favor.
00:42Then, she took the wolf.
00:43The only A rank male in the settlement.
00:46Strongest father, strongest cubs.
00:48She'd climb to the top, and leave me behind with a pile of eggs.
00:52However, five times with the wolf.
00:54Five cubs, every one B rank.
00:56Once with Cole, one clutch, ten cubs, every one A rank.
01:01In a tribe that had seen maybe five A ranks in a hundred years, that was enough to make Cole
01:06the next chieftain,
01:07and turn me into something the elders called, Goddess Chosen.
01:11She couldn't accept it.
01:12She crept into Cole's den.
01:14He threw her out in front of the whole tribe.
01:16The wolf ended their bond, and drove her and her children into the wilderness.
01:21In less than a month, all five of her cubs starved.
01:24I was the one who took her back in.
01:26I gave her meat.
01:27I gave her warmth.
01:29She killed my ten children one by one.
01:31And then she threw me off the bridge.
01:33I still remember the weightlessness, then the end.
01:39So this time, I was not choosing a child.
01:43The choosing ceremony was already moving.
01:45The chieftain stood at the front, arms folded, watching the males line up.
01:50Eve was beside me, her shoulder just barely touching mine.
01:53I felt the exact moment she decided to move.
01:56She crossed the ground toward Cole, like she'd rehearsed him.
01:59Pressed herself against his arm.
02:02Chieftain, I choose Cole.
02:05She looked back at me.
02:07That smile.
02:08I looked at Cole.
02:09Cold-blooded.
02:10No heat in winter.
02:12Three months of hibernation every year,
02:14leaving whatever female he'd chosen to manage the den alone in the snow.
02:19No hunting skills.
02:20Without the tribe around him, he couldn't even feed himself.
02:24She thought she'd taken the prize.
02:26She didn't know what she will pay.
02:28I turned and looked at what was left.
02:30A B-rank bear.
02:32Two C-rank boars.
02:33Near the back, a wolf shifter, who had been watching me since I walked in.
02:38Brow creased.
02:39Expression difficult to read.
02:40I started toward him.
02:42The crowd shifted.
02:43I thought about my ten cubs.
02:45Quiet and good.
02:46Never any trouble.
02:47A-rank every one of them.
02:49And felt something cold and subtle move through the grief.
02:53Not this time.
02:54I was about to open my mouth.
02:55A palm hit my face so hard I bit my cheek.
03:01The female in front of me was bonded to the settlement's black tiger shifter.
03:06This clump of rabbit fur was found on his bed.
03:09The crowd turned fast.
03:11One voice at the back, then three more, then a wall of sound closing in.
03:15I looked past her shoulder and found Eve near the middle of the crowd.
03:20Oh, Sarah.
03:22I didn't want to say anything.
03:24But I did see you walking with Leo that night.
03:27One sentence.
03:28Every door in the room closed at once.
03:31The wolf shifter stepped back.
03:33The chieftain's eyes were already on me.
03:35I shifted on the spot.
03:37White rabbit.
03:38Clean fur.
03:38Full circle.
03:39Every angle.
03:40Nothing hidden.
03:41The crowd went quiet.
03:43I shifted back.
03:44No missing fur.
03:45That tuft isn't mine.
03:46Then I felt it.
03:47A bare patch on my inner thigh.
03:49Small.
03:50Deliberate.
03:51Taken while I slept.
03:52My hand went still against my leg.
03:55Someone in the crowd sighed.
03:57That was enough.
03:57I had spent this entire second life thinking I understood what Eve was capable of.
04:03I had underestimated her.
04:04The chieftain raised his hand.
04:06I looked at Eve one last time.
04:08The corner of her mouth moved.
04:10She was holding back a smile.
04:12I turned and walked.
04:13No argument.
04:14No appeal.
04:15No tears.
04:16The crowd opened a path.
04:17I walked through it with my back straight.
04:20And I didn't stop until I was outside.
04:25Eve came to see me off.
04:27She was draped over Cole's arm.
04:29Voice warm and unhurried.
04:31Don't worry, Sarah.
04:33There are powerful males out there.
04:36Maybe you'll find the right one.
04:39I stopped.
04:40Turned around.
04:41Thanks for the encouragement.
04:43Cole has a lot of stamina.
04:45Serpent nature is what it is.
04:47Once or twice a day is just recreation for him.
04:50You should build up your strength.
04:52Wouldn't want to disappoint him.
04:54I turned and walked.
04:55Didn't look back.
04:56The tribe's border was a line of stones set into the ground.
04:59I stepped over it without slowing.
05:01The noise of the settlement faded.
05:03The trees ahead were dense and the wind was cold.
05:06She thought she'd won.
05:08She hadn't thought about winter.
05:09Cole would hibernate.
05:10Three months, maybe more.
05:12She'd be alone in the den.
05:14No heat.
05:14No provider.
05:15No idea how to feed herself in the snow.
05:18She'd spent her whole life letting other people handle the hard parts.
05:22She had no idea what she'd actually chosen.
05:25I had walked this path before.
05:27Last life.
05:28I walked it in grief.
05:29With nothing except the healer's knowledge of this life, I knew exactly where it ended.
05:36I didn't make it far before I heard it behind me.
05:39Heavy steps.
05:40Low and deliberate.
05:42Closing fast.
05:43I shifted without thinking.
05:44Dropped into rabbit form and ran.
05:46The ground came up close and the trees blurred at the edges of my vision.
05:50Behind me, the leopard shifter wasn't bothering to be quiet.
05:53He knew what a lone female outside tribal borders meant.
05:57He knew how it ended.
05:58I ran until I saw the rock face.
06:00A narrow opening.
06:01Dark inside.
06:02Barely wide enough to squeeze through.
06:04I went in.
06:05Behind me, the leopard stopped.
06:07He circled the entrance twice.
06:08His steps slowed.
06:10Then stopped entirely.
06:12He cursed once.
06:13Low and ugly.
06:14And I heard him leave.
06:15I didn't understand why.
06:16I shifted back and stood still, breathing hard.
06:19The cave went deeper than I'd expected.
06:21The air inside was stale and freezing.
06:23And underneath that, something else.
06:26Rot.
06:27Infection.
06:27The dense, animal scent of something very large.
06:31I took one more step into the dark.
06:33Something mooed.
06:34I stopped.
06:35My heart was loud in my ears.
06:37The smell hit me harder now.
06:38Animal.
06:39Enormous.
06:40Close.
06:40Whatever was in here, the leopard had known.
06:43Whatever was in here had made a predator who hunted lone females turn around without
06:48a sound and walk away.
06:49I stood in the dark and didn't move.
06:52I already knew what was in there.
06:54Last life.
06:54It was the same cave.
06:56The same darkness.
06:58The same smell.
06:59I took one more step forward.
07:02The sound that came out of the dark was not a roar.
07:06It was bigger than that.
07:07It hit me in the chest before it reached my ears.
07:10A pressure through the floor.
07:11Through my ribs.
07:12And for one full second, my body simply stopped.
07:16Every instinct told me to turn around.
07:19My feet didn't move.
07:20The dark shifted.
07:21And then I saw him.
07:22He hadn't stood up.
07:23I stood where I was and looked at him.
07:25The roar faded.
07:26The cave went silent.
07:28He still hadn't moved.
07:29I had heard roars before.
07:30The wolf shifter in the tribe.
07:32The bear males during mating season.
07:34Those roars said, I am here.
07:36I am dangerous.
07:37Come closer and find out.
07:39This was different.
07:40This roar said, go away.
07:42I looked at his hind legs.
07:43Even in the dark, I could see it.
07:45The flesh was wrong.
07:46Swollen and dark.
07:48Pale patches crawling through the wounds.
07:50He had been lying here a long time.
07:52Too long to hunt.
07:53Too long to do much of anything.
07:55Except wait.
07:56He opened his mouth and the sound hit me again.
07:58I took one step toward him.
08:00The roaring stopped.
08:01Gold eyes in the dark.
08:03Very still.
08:04Watching me cross the distance between us.
08:06One step at a time.
08:08I didn't stop walking.
08:10I turned and ran again.
08:12I made it two steps before I noticed something strange.
08:15The lion was roaring.
08:16But he wasn't moving.
08:18He hadn't even stood up.
08:19It felt like he was just trying to scare me off.
08:22Then I smelled it.
08:23Rot and infection.
08:24I looked closer and saw the flesh on his hind legs.
08:27The wounds were deep and crawling with white.
08:30I stopped.
08:30I turned around.
08:31I know medicine.
08:33Will you stay?
08:34The lion looked at me for a moment.
08:36Then he stretched both hind legs out toward me.
08:39The wounds were bad.
08:40Maggots packed into the tissue.
08:42I gagged and got to work anyway.
08:44Cleared the infestation.
08:45Opened my pack and found the wound powder.
08:47Before I'd arrived here, I'd studied herbal medicine.
08:50Once I was in the tribe, that knowledge had made me the settlement's healer.
08:53I'd treated half the tribe at one point or another.
08:56Not one of them had spoken up for me today.
08:58The bitterness sat in my chest as I worked.
09:01When I finished, the lion's aggression faded.
09:03He nudged his head against my sleeve.
09:05A thank you.
09:06Then his stomach growled.
09:08Twice.
09:08He'd been injured too long to hunt.
09:10He was starving.
09:11I'll go find food.
09:12Wait here.
09:13I turned to go.
09:14His paw hooked around my ankle and pulled me back.
09:17Then that wide, rough tongue swiped up the side of my arm, marking me.
09:23His scent on my skin would keep most predators back.
09:26I thought of the leopard from earlier.
09:28This white lion's rank had to be high.
09:30That was the only explanation for that kind of deterrent effect.
09:33I didn't go far.
09:34I stayed close to the cave and gathered what I could find.
09:37Wild fruit.
09:38Some edible plants.
09:39By the time I got back, it was dark.
09:41I dug out my fire kit and got a flame going.
09:43The lion's eyes brightened.
09:45He shifted closer to the warm.
09:46I stayed.
09:47During the day, I changed his bandages.
09:49Foraged for water and food.
09:50At night, he wrapped me in his fur like a blanket.
09:53And we slept together.
09:54Half a month passed.
09:55Then one day, I came back to the cave and stopped dead.
09:58A man lay where the lion had been.
10:00White hair.
10:01Gold eyes.
10:01Two lion ears twitching softly at the top of his head.
10:04He looked at me when I came in.
10:07You're back.
10:07His voice was warm and low.
10:10I nearly shouted.
10:11You're the white lion.
10:12My name is Rice.
10:14I was grinning without meaning to.
10:16I'm Sarah.
10:18With the wounds healed, Reese could walk.
10:21He couldn't do anything strenuous yet.
10:22But the first time we went out together, he showed me what he was made of.
10:27A boar.
10:27Under a minute.
10:28He bit through its throat like it was nothing.
10:31That night, I ate real meat for the first time in a week.
10:35Pork crackling over the fire.
10:37Fat, hissing, and popping.
10:40I ate until my face was greasy and asked Reese whether he was A rank.
10:44Something shifted in his expression.
10:46No, I don't have a rank.
10:48I stared at him.
10:49Every male shifter had a rank.
10:51That was just how it worked.
10:52But the power I'd seen from him, even injured, was beyond anything the wolf in the tribe could manage.
10:58Reese shook his head.
10:59He said it plainly.
11:00No rank.
11:01Never had one.
11:02That was why his own tribe had driven him out.
11:04They'd called him a monster.
11:06Exiled him as a cub.
11:07The memory clearly cost him something.
11:09His eyes went distant and sad.
11:11Born without a tribe.
11:13No family.
11:13No one.
11:14Whatever had made him this strong, he'd earned it alone.
11:17The hard way.
11:18I reached over and put my hand on his head.
11:20Doesn't matter.
11:21Have me now.
11:21Friends.
11:22Reese went red.
11:23Another month passed.
11:25Reese healed completely.
11:26Winter was coming.
11:27We started going out early and coming back late to stock up.
11:30He hunted.
11:31I gathered herbs and fruit.
11:33We came back full every time.
11:34I thought maybe it would just stay like this.
11:37Then Reese's heat cycle hit.
11:39I woke up one morning to find his body burning.
11:41His eyes were red.
11:42His breath came in rough pulls.
11:44He told me not to leave the cave for a few days.
11:47Said he had to go somewhere.
11:48Then he took two steps and his legs gave out.
11:51When he went down, I saw everything.
11:53I understood immediately.
11:55Every shifter had a regular heat cycle.
11:57When it hit, instinct won over reason.
11:59He'd already pushed himself past his limit.
12:01Even then, lying on the ground with his jaw clenched,
12:04he looked up at me and said,
12:05Don't be scared.
12:06I won't touch you.
12:07I'll handle it myself.
12:08He was fighting his own body.
12:09His neck was tight with strain.
12:11The sounds coming from his throat were low and desperate.
12:14I watched him.
12:14My chest ached.
12:16I walked to him, crouched down.
12:19Rex, do you not want me?
12:21How could you even ask that?
12:23I cupped his face in both hands and I kissed him.
12:26When his hands came up to hold me, I was scared.
12:29What coal had put me through had left its marks.
12:32He was always rough.
12:33There was no pleasure in it.
12:34Only something close to endurance.
12:36Reese was stronger than coal by a wide margin.
12:38I braced myself.
12:39But there was no pain.
12:40Reese was gentle in a way I hadn't known was possible.
12:43Like his fur.
12:44Light enough that I felt like I was floating.
12:46I lost track of time.
12:47When I finally noticed the world again,
12:49snow had started to fall outside the cave.
12:51That winter, I was warm.
12:53Reese kept the cave heated.
12:54When firewood ran low, he went out and got more.
12:56At night, he wrapped me in his warmth.
12:58His fur pulled around me like a second skin.
13:01After that first time, he became a little enthusiastic.
13:04Eye contact.
13:05Next thing I knew, I was on my back.
13:06Not that I minded.
13:07He was good at it.
13:08I never once wanted to pull away.
13:10With that kind of frequency and no precautions,
13:12it wasn't long before I noticed something different about my body.
13:15I pressed two fingers to my wrist and checked my pulse.
13:18Pregnant.
13:19When I told Reese, he went still.
13:22Then his ears shot up.
13:23His tail started moving.
13:24Really?
13:25He pressed one large, rough hand against my stomach.
13:28You're really carrying my cub?
13:30He lifted me straight off the ground.
13:32We were both laughing.
13:33After that, he treated me like I was made of glass.
13:36He was at my side constantly.
13:37He insisted on doing everything himself.
13:40Lying in the warmth of his arms,
13:42I thought again about last time.
13:43Cole was a cold-blooded shifter.
13:45In winter, he gave off no heat at all.
13:48And he hibernated.
13:50While other males made sure their females were fed through the season,
13:53I was out in the snow alone,
13:55trying to find something edible.
13:56My medical skills kept me fed.
13:58Barely.
13:59The shifters I treated gave me scraps.
14:01But after the ten serpent cubs were born,
14:03scraps weren't enough.
14:05Cole went into hibernation.
14:06He could survive on stored fat.
14:08The cubs were too young.
14:09They needed real food.
14:11Constantly.
14:12I foraged alone.
14:13A rabbit, small and not built for winter hunting.
14:16Who didn't dare go far.
14:17I brought back mice.
14:19I brought back frost-bitten berries.
14:21The cubs were good.
14:22All ten of them.
14:22A-rank.
14:23And not one of them ever picked a fight or made trouble.
14:26They helped with the den work.
14:27Thinking about them, my throat closed.
14:29I'd failed them.
14:30I hadn't kept them safe.
14:32A warm weight pressed against my back.
14:34His voice was low.
14:36Sarah, what's wrong?
14:38Nothing.
14:40Just homesick.
14:41Is being with me not enough?
14:42No.
14:43That's not it.
14:44Being with you is the best thing there is.
14:47I changed the subject before he could press further.
14:49I'd assumed I'd never see my sister again.
14:51She showed up at our cave that same night.
14:53Reese heard the sounds first.
14:55Someone moving outside.
14:56Taking things.
14:57He went to check.
14:58I heard a familiar shriek.
15:00I came out to find my sister on her knees in the snow.
15:02Heavily pregnant.
15:04Shaking hard.
15:05Please don't kill me.
15:06White lion, please.
15:07I looked at her in the dark and almost laughed.
15:10She looked up.
15:11Her face shifted when she recognized me.
15:13Sarah, why are you here?
15:15Reese glanced at me.
15:16You know her?
15:17I shook my head.
15:18Never seen her before.
15:19Reese's intent sharpened immediately.
15:21My sister screamed.
15:23Sarah!
15:24Don't let him kill me!
15:25I came all this way to save you!
15:27Sis.
15:28It stopped Reese cold.
15:30He pulled back.
15:32Asked me if there had been a misunderstanding.
15:34I sighed.
15:35I walked over to my sister.
15:36What do you want?
15:37I talked to the chieftain.
15:39He said you can come back.
15:41I didn't move.
15:42I mean it.
15:42And Sarah, the tribe is in trouble.
15:45Two settlements are about to go to war.
15:47This whole area is going to become a battlefield.
15:49You two aren't aligned with either side.
15:51You'll get caught in the middle.
15:52Hearing my sister's warning, I remembered.
15:54There had been a war last time.
15:56Shifters were territorial by nature.
15:59Possessive over mates.
16:00Possessive over land.
16:01Two tribes going to war over borders wasn't unusual.
16:06But last time, the war had ended because of my ten serpent cards hatching.
16:10Ten A rank shifters born at once.
16:13The opposing tribe, the Ura, had taken one look and surrendered on the spot.
16:17The two settlements merged into one.
16:19The Ura had a powerful shaman.
16:21He was the one who declared me goddess chosen.
16:24Said I carried a rare destiny.
16:26That I had been sent to the tribe as a gift from the beast god.
16:29But I had no interest in my sister's advice.
16:32Reese and I had built something real out here.
16:34There was no reason to go back.
16:36I told her no.
16:37She looked straight at my stomach.
16:40Sarah, you're pregnant, aren't you?
16:42Even if you don't care about yourself, think about the child.
16:45You two can live free out here for now.
16:47But what about later?
16:48What about your cub?
16:50Do you really want to raise a child with no tribe behind them?
16:53That landed.
16:54This world was brutal.
16:56Reese, as strong as he was, had nearly died alone in a cave.
17:00What would happen when our child was born?
17:02What would happen when we were small and the world was full of things that wanted to eat them?
17:07He seemed to read what I was thinking.
17:09He came over and took my hand.
17:11Sarah, let's go back.
17:13After I told my sister yes, she let out a long breath.
17:17Then...
17:17Is there anything to eat?
17:19She ate like she hadn't seen food in weeks.
17:21Her stomach was enormous, but her arms and legs were thin as sticks.
17:25She'd had it rough.
17:26Not hard to guess why.
17:28Cole had almost certainly gone into hibernation by now.
17:31My sister had never worked hard a day in her life.
17:34Nothing short of starvation would have pushed her out here.
17:37After the meal, she lay down in the outer part of the cave to rest.
17:41Reese folded me into his arms as usual.
17:44My sister glanced over from across the cave.
17:46The look on her face was pure envy.
17:49In the middle of the night, I got up to use the bathroom.
17:53My sister's voice came low through the dark.
17:55Unbelievable.
17:57This life and she still gets to eat like that.
18:00Bonded to some rankless mutt and she still got nerve to look pleased with herself.
18:04Come on, little ones.
18:06Come out fast.
18:07Then mom won't have to put up with this anymore.
18:10I stood in the dark and let it wash over me.
18:13Even now, I couldn't fully understand where her hatred came from.
18:16We were twins.
18:17Before we'd ended up here, our parents died and left the two of us to figure out the world together.
18:23I remembered what they'd always said.
18:25You're the older one.
18:26Take care of your sister.
18:27So I did.
18:28I gave way.
18:29Every time.
18:30On everything.
18:31Whatever was best, I let her have it.
18:33Somewhere along the line, she'd decided that was simply how things should be.
18:37I was supposed to give her everything good.
18:39I was supposed to be beneath her.
18:41I wasn't allowed to have things she didn't have.
18:43By the third day back in the tribe, I understood exactly why she'd worked so hard to bring me home.
18:48Her due date was close.
18:50She was terrified of dying on the birthing ground.
18:52She needed me there.
18:53Last time, she'd delivered five times.
18:56Three of those were difficult labors.
18:58I'd gotten her through all three.
18:59There was a second reason, too.
19:01She wanted me to watch.
19:02She wanted me standing there when she produced 20 A-rank serpent shifters and climbed to the top of the
19:08tribe.
19:08She wanted to see my face.
19:11Life back in the tribe wasn't easy.
19:14Even with Reese beside me, plenty of females still looked at me with hostility.
19:18They didn't want me near their mates, so I stayed close to the den.
19:21I can accurately predict major tribal events and spells of bad weather, and it's going to rain soon.
19:26She predicted a few major tribal events and a stretch of bad weather accurately enough that the tribe elevated her
19:33status considerably.
19:34Then the war began.
19:37Reese was sent to the front.
19:41Within days, every fighter in the tribe had noticed that his bite force exceeded that of the A-rank war
19:47by a significant margin.
19:49His raw strength was in a different category altogether.
19:52This world ran on strength.
19:54Strength was everything.
19:55And yet, because Reese came out unranked, the wolf shifter grew jealous.
20:02He gathered the other males and turned on Reese.
20:05They sent him alone into an Ura ambush.
20:09When the others had what they needed from the distraction,
20:14they ran, left him there.
20:17I didn't find out until Reese came back with serious wounds.
20:22I went straight to the chieftain.
20:27It's fine, Sarah.
20:28Reese caught my arm, his voice easy.
20:30Even with all of that, they still couldn't touch me.
20:32I came back in one piece, didn't I?
20:34I looked at the cuts across his body.
20:37My eyes burned.
20:39Rix, I'm sorry.
20:41I shouldn't have brought you back here.
20:44This place isn't right for you.
20:47Let's go home.
20:49Back to the cave.
20:50No.
20:51He was suddenly urgent.
20:53If we go back, you'll be homesick again.
20:55We stay here.
20:56As long as you and the cub are safe, I don't care what they do to me.
21:00Something cracked open in my chest.
21:02I remembered what I'd said in the cave.
21:04That I was homesick.
21:05He'd been carrying that the entire time.
21:07He thought I meant the tribe.
21:08You are my home.
21:11Let's go.
21:12Just the two of us.
21:14I want to go with you.
21:16I'd almost convinced him.
21:17Then, a female came sprinting toward us.
21:19Sarah.
21:21Get to your sister's den.
21:22She's going into labor.
21:24I heard the screaming before I reached the entrance.
21:27Blood on the ground.
21:29The same scene as the first time, last life,
21:32when she'd had her first bad labor.
21:34Back then, it was the wolf's fault.
21:35His build was large.
21:37The cub inherited the size.
21:38The head got stuck.
21:39But serpent eggs were small.
21:41They should have come out easily.
21:42I got my answer fast.
21:43I helped her deliver ten eggs.
21:45Then, I felt more inside.
21:46I was reaching for the next one when my sister's body seized.
21:50She's convulsing.
21:51Nobody here knew that word.
21:53Find a stone!
21:55They found a smooth stone and pressed it between her teeth so she couldn't bite through her tongue.
21:59I used the moment to pull the rest of the eggs out.
22:01I counted.
22:02Twenty in total.
22:03Twenty in total.
22:04She passed out when it was done.
22:06I mixed a tonic and got it down her throat.
22:08Then, turned to Cole.
22:09If she makes it through tonight, she'll live.
22:12If she doesn't, there's nothing more I can do.
22:14I turned to leave.
22:15Cole grabbed my wrist.
22:17She's your sister.
22:18You should stay and take care of her.
22:20Even now, even with his female unconscious on the ground from a dangerous labor, I pulled my wrist free.
22:28She's your mate, not mine.
22:30I'm not responsible for her.
22:32What I'd done was already more than she deserved.
22:36I walked out of the den into the open air.
22:40Reese was waiting outside.
22:42My heart twisted.
22:44What are you doing here?
22:46With wounds that bad, you should be resting in the...
22:48He pulled me into his arms before I could finish.
22:52His voice was rough.
22:53Sarah.
22:56We're not leaving.
22:59I started to ask why.
23:00Then I felt it.
23:01Something warm and wet soaking into my shoulder.
23:04I brought him back to our den.
23:06Pushed him until he talked.
23:08He cried harder.
23:11I look how fair it's a mirth.
23:13Reese had been standing outside my sister's den the entire time.
23:16He hadn't known that was what birth looked like.
23:19If I went into labor out in the wilderness and something went wrong, I felt tears on my own face
23:23before I realized.
23:25Rix.
23:26Not everyone has a labor like hers.
23:28Maybe mine will be easy.
23:30Then we're still not leaving.
23:31His voice didn't waver.
23:34Even if the chance is one in a hundred, I won't let you suffer.
23:37I won't let you do it.
23:38I won't let you do it.
23:39I won't let you do it.
23:39I won't let you do it.
23:39I won't let you do it.
23:39I won't let you do it.
23:39I won't let you do it.
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