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Reborn After Betrayal, Claimed by the White Lion : All Episodes 1 - End
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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.
00:14I lay still for a moment, letting it settle.
00:16We'd arrived on the beast continent together.
00:18My sister Eve and I, two women, dropped into a world with one rule.
00:23Rank decided everything.
00:25S rank was once in a century.
00:28A rank, once in a generation.
00:30The chieftain had lined up every unmated male in the settlement.
00:33We were supposed to choose.
00:35Eve told me to take the serpent shifter.
00:37Serpents lay eggs, easier than giving birth.
00:40She smiled like she was doing me a favor.
00:43Then, she took the wolf.
00:44The only A rank male in the settlement.
00:47Strongest father, strongest cubs.
00:49She'd climb to the top, and leave me behind with a pile of eggs.
00:53However, five times with the wolf, five cubs, every one B rank.
00:58Once with Cole, one clutch, ten cubs, every one A rank.
01:03In a tribe that had seen maybe five A ranks in a hundred years, that was enough to make Cole
01:08the next chieftain, and turn me into something the elders called Goddess Chosen.
01:12She couldn't accept it.
01:14She crept into Cole's den.
01:16He threw her out in front of the whole tribe.
01:19The wolf ended their bond, and drove her and her children into the wilderness.
01:23In less than a month, all five of her cubs starved.
01:26I was the one who took her back in.
01:28I gave her meat.
01:30I gave her warmth.
01:31She killed my ten children one by one.
01:33And then she threw me off the bridge.
01:35I still remember the weightlessness.
01:37Then the end.
01:41So this time, I was not choosing her.
01:45The choosing ceremony was already moving.
01:48The chieftain stood at the front, arms folded, watching the males line up.
01:53Eve was beside me, her shoulder just barely touching mine.
01:56I felt the exact moment she decided to move.
01:59She crossed the ground toward Cole, like she'd rehearsed him.
02:02Pressed herself against his arm.
02:05Chieftain, I choose Cole.
02:08She looked back at me.
02:10That smile.
02:11I looked at Cole.
02:12Cold-blooded.
02:14No heat in winter.
02:15Three months of hibernation every year, leaving whatever female he'd chosen to manage the den alone in the snow.
02:23No hunting skills.
02:24Without the tribe around him, he couldn't even feed himself.
02:28She thought she'd taken the prize.
02:30She didn't know what she will pay.
02:32I turned and looked at what was left.
02:34A B-rank bear.
02:35Two C-rank bores.
02:37Near the back, a wolf shifter, who had been watching me since I walked in.
02:42Brow creased.
02:43Expression difficult to read.
02:44I started toward him.
02:46The crowd shifted.
02:47I thought about my ten cubs.
02:49Quiet and good.
02:50Never any trouble.
02:51A-rank every one of them.
02:53And felt something cold and subtle move through the grief.
02:57Not this time.
02:58I was about to open my mouth.
03:00A palm hit my face so hard I bit my cheek.
03:06The female in front of me was bonded to the settlement's black tiger shifter.
03:11This clump of rabbit fur was found on his bed.
03:14The crowd turned fast.
03:16One voice at the back, then three more, then a wall of sound closing in.
03:21I looked past her shoulder and found Eve near the middle of the crowd.
03:25Oh, Sarah.
03:27I didn't want to say anything, but I did see you walking with Leo that night.
03:32One sentence.
03:34Every door in the room closed at once.
03:37The wolf shifter stepped back.
03:38The chieftain's eyes were already on me.
03:41I shifted on the spot.
03:43White rabbit.
03:43Clean fur.
03:44Full circle.
03:45Every angle.
03:46Nothing hidden.
03:46The crowd went quiet.
03:48I shifted back.
03:50No missing fur.
03:51That tuft isn't mine.
03:52Then I felt it.
03:53A bare patch on my inner thigh.
03:55Small.
03:56Deliberate.
03:57Taken while I slept.
03:58My hand went still against my leg.
04:01Someone in the crowd sighed.
04:03That was enough.
04:03I had spent this entire second life thinking I understood what Eve was capable of.
04:09I had underestimated her.
04:10The chieftain raised his hand.
04:12I looked at Eve one last time.
04:14The corner of her mouth moved.
04:16She was holding back a smile.
04:18I turned and walked.
04:19No argument.
04:20No appeal.
04:21No tears.
04:22The crowd opened a path.
04:24I walked through it with my back straight.
04:26And I didn't stop until I was outside.
04:32Eve came to see me off.
04:34She was draped over Cole's arm.
04:36Voice warm and unhurried.
04:38Don't worry, Sarah.
04:40There are powerful males out there.
04:43Maybe you'll find the right one.
04:46I stopped.
04:47Turned around.
04:48Thanks for the encouragement.
04:50Cole has a lot of stamina.
04:52Serpent nature is what it is.
04:55Once or twist a day is just recreation for him.
04:58You should build up your strength.
05:00Wouldn't want to disappoint him.
05:01I turned and walked.
05:02Didn't look back.
05:03The tribe's border was a line of stones set into the ground.
05:07I stepped over it without slowing.
05:09The noise of the settlement faded.
05:10The trees ahead were dense and the wind was cold.
05:14She thought she'd won.
05:16She hadn't thought about winter.
05:17Cole would hibernate.
05:18Three months, maybe more.
05:20She'd be alone in the den.
05:22No heat, no provider.
05:23No idea how to feed herself in the snow.
05:26She'd spent her whole life letting other people handle the hard parts.
05:30She had no idea what she'd actually chosen.
05:33I had walked this path before.
05:35Last life.
05:36I walked it in grief.
05:38With nothing except the healer's knowledge of this life, I knew exactly where it ended.
05:45I didn't make it far before I heard it behind me.
05:48Heavy steps.
05:49Low and deliberate.
05:51Closing fast.
05:52I shifted without thinking.
05:53Dropped into rabbit form and ran.
05:55The ground came up close and the trees blurred at the edges of my vision.
05:59Behind me, the leopard shifter wasn't bothering to be quiet.
06:02He knew what a lone female outside tribal borders meant.
06:06He knew how it ended.
06:07I ran until I saw the rock face.
06:09A narrow opening.
06:10Dark inside.
06:11Barely wide enough to squeeze through.
06:13I went in.
06:14Behind me, the leopard stopped.
06:16He circled the entrance twice.
06:18His steps slowed.
06:19Then stopped entirely.
06:21He cursed once.
06:22Low and ugly.
06:23And I heard him leave.
06:25I didn't understand why.
06:26I shifted back and stood still, breathing hard.
06:29The cave went deeper than I'd expected.
06:30The air inside was stale and freezing.
06:33And underneath that, something else.
06:36Rot.
06:36Infection.
06:37The dense animal scent of something very large.
06:41I took one more step into the dark.
06:43Something mooed.
06:44I stopped.
06:45My heart was loud in my ears.
06:47The smell hit me harder now.
06:48Animal.
06:49Enormous.
06:50Close.
06:50Whatever was in here, the leopard had known.
06:53Whatever was in here had made a predator who hunted lone females turn around.
06:58Without a sound and walk away.
07:00I stood in the dark and didn't move.
07:02I already knew what was in there.
07:04Last life.
07:05It was this same cave.
07:07This same darkness.
07:09This same smell.
07:10I took one more step forward.
07:13The sound that came out of the dark was not a roar.
07:16It was bigger than that.
07:18It hit me in the chest before it reached my ears.
07:21A pressure through the floor.
07:22Through my ribs.
07:23And for one full second, my body simply stopped.
07:27Every instinct told me to turn around.
07:30My feet didn't move.
07:31The dark shifted.
07:32And then I saw him.
07:33He hadn't stood up.
07:34I stood where I was and looked at him.
07:37The roar faded.
07:38The cave went silent.
07:39He still hadn't moved.
07:41I had heard roars before.
07:42The wolf shifter in the tribe.
07:44The bear males during mating season.
07:46Those roars said,
07:47I am here.
07:48I am dangerous.
07:49Come closer and find out.
07:51This was different.
07:52This roar said,
07:53Go away.
07:53I looked at his hind legs.
07:55Even in the dark, I could see it.
07:56The flesh was wrong.
07:58Swollen and dark.
07:59Pale patches crawling through the wounds.
08:02He had been lying here a long time.
08:04Too long to hunt.
08:05Too long to do much of anything.
08:07Except wait.
08:08He opened his mouth and the sound hit me again.
08:10I took one step toward him.
08:12The roaring stopped.
08:14Gold eyes in the dark.
08:15Very still.
08:16Watching me cross the distance between us.
08:19One step at a time.
08:20I didn't stop walking.
08:23I turned and ran again.
08:25I made it two steps before I noticed something strange.
08:28The lion was roaring.
08:29But he wasn't moving.
08:30He hadn't even stood up.
08:32It felt like he was just trying to scare me off.
08:34Then I smelled it.
08:36Rot and infection.
08:37I looked closer and saw the flesh on his hind legs.
08:40The wounds were deep and crawling with white.
08:43I stopped.
08:43I turned around.
08:44I know medicine.
08:46Will you stay?
08:47The lion looked at me for a moment.
08:49Then he stretched both hind legs out toward me.
08:52The wounds were bad.
08:53Maggots packed into the tissue.
08:55I gagged and got to work anyway.
08:57Cleared the infestation.
08:58Opened my pack and found the wound powder.
09:01Before I'd arrived here, I'd studied herbal medicine.
09:03Once I was in the tribe, that knowledge had made me the settlement's healer.
09:07I'd treated half the tribe at one point or another.
09:10Not one of them had spoken up for me today.
09:12The bitterness sat in my chest as I worked.
09:15When I finished, the lion's aggression faded.
09:17He nudged his head against my sleeve.
09:19A thank you.
09:20Then his stomach growled twice.
09:22He'd been injured too long to hunt.
09:24He was starving.
09:25I'll go find food.
09:27Wait here.
09:27I turned to go.
09:28His paw hooked around my ankle and pulled me back.
09:31Then that wide, rough tongue swiped up the side of my arm, marking me.
09:37His scent on my skin would keep most predators back.
09:40I thought of the leopard from earlier.
09:42This white lion's rank had to be high.
09:45That was the only explanation for that kind of deterrent effect.
09:48I didn't go far.
09:49I stayed close to the cave and gathered what I could find.
09:52Wild fruit, some edible plants.
09:54By the time I got back, it was dark.
09:56I dug out my fire kit and got a flame going.
09:58The lion's eyes brightened.
10:00He shifted closer to the warmth.
10:01I stayed.
10:02During the day, I changed his bandages.
10:04Foraged for water and food.
10:05At night, he wrapped me in his fur like a blanket.
10:08And we slept together.
10:09Half a month passed.
10:10Then one day, I came back to the cave and stopped dead.
10:13A man lay where the lion had been.
10:15White hair, gold eyes, two lion ears twitching softly at the top of his head.
10:20He looked at me when I came in.
10:22You're back.
10:23His voice was warm and low.
10:25I nearly shouted.
10:26You're the white lion.
10:28My name is Rice.
10:30I was grinning without meaning to.
10:32I'm Sarah.
10:34With the wounds healed, Reese could walk.
10:36He couldn't do anything strenuous yet.
10:38But the first time we went out together, he showed me what he was made of.
10:43A boar.
10:43Under a minute.
10:44He bit through its throat like he was nothing.
10:47That night, I ate real meat for the first time in weeks.
10:51Pork crackling over the fire.
10:54Fat hissing and popping.
10:56I ate until my face was greasy and asked Reese whether he was A rank.
11:01Something shifted in his expression.
11:03No, I don't have a rank.
11:04I stared at him.
11:05Every male shifter had a rank.
11:07That was just how it worked.
11:09But the power I'd seen from him, even injured, was beyond anything the wolf in the tribe could
11:14manage.
11:15Reese shook his head.
11:16He said it plainly.
11:17No rank.
11:18Never had one.
11:19That was why his own tribe had driven him out.
11:21They'd called him a monster.
11:23Exiled him as a cub.
11:24The memory clearly cost him something.
11:26His eyes went distant and sad.
11:29Born without a tribe.
11:30No family.
11:31No one.
11:31Whatever had made him this strong, he'd earned it alone.
11:34The hard way.
11:35I reached over and put my hand on his head.
11:37Doesn't matter.
11:38Have me now.
11:39Friends.
11:39Reese went red.
11:41Another month passed.
11:42Reese healed completely.
11:44Winter was coming.
11:45We started going out early and coming back late to stock up.
11:48He hunted.
11:49I gathered herbs and fruit.
11:50We came back full every time.
11:52I thought maybe it would just stay like this.
11:54Then Reese's heat cycle hit.
11:56I woke up one morning to find his body burning.
11:59His eyes were red.
12:00His breath came in rough pulls.
12:02He told me not to leave the cave for a few days.
12:05Said he had to go somewhere.
12:06Then he took two steps and his legs gave out.
12:09When he went down, I saw everything.
12:11I understood immediately.
12:12Every shifter had a regular heat cycle.
12:15When it hit, instinct won over reason.
12:18He'd already pushed himself past his limit.
12:20Even then, lying on the ground with his jaw clenched, he looked up at me and said,
12:24Don't be scared.
12:24I won't touch you.
12:25I'll handle it myself.
12:26He was fighting his own body.
12:28His neck was tight with strain.
12:30The sounds coming from his throat were low and desperate.
12:32I watched him.
12:33My chest ached.
12:34I walked to him.
12:35Crouched down.
12:38Rex, do you not want me?
12:40How could you even ask that?
12:42I cupped his face in both hands and I kissed him.
12:45When his hands came up to hold me, I was scared.
12:48What Cole had put me through had left its marks.
12:51He was always rough.
12:52There was no pleasure in it.
12:53Only something close to endurance.
12:55Reese was stronger than Cole by a wide margin.
12:58I braced myself.
12:59But there was no pain.
13:00Reese was gentle in a way I hadn't known was possible.
13:03Like his fur.
13:03Light enough that I felt like I was floating.
13:05I lost track of time.
13:07When I finally noticed the world again, snow had started to fall outside the cave.
13:11That winter, I was warm.
13:12Reese kept the cave heated.
13:14When firewood ran low, he went out and got more.
13:16At night, he wrapped me in his warmth.
13:18His fur pulled around me like a second skin.
13:21After that first time, he became a little enthusiastic.
13:24Eye contact.
13:25Next thing I knew, I was on my back.
13:26Not that I minded.
13:27He was good at it.
13:28I never once wanted to pull away.
13:30With that kind of frequency and no precautions,
13:32It wasn't long before I noticed something different about my body.
13:35I pressed two fingers to my wrist and checked my pulse.
13:38Pregnant.
13:39When I told Reese, he went still.
13:42Then his ears shot up.
13:43His tail started moving.
13:45Really?
13:46He pressed one large, rough hand against my stomach.
13:49You're really carrying my cub?
13:51He lifted me straight off the ground.
13:53We were both laughing.
13:54After that, he treated me like I was made of glass.
13:56He was at my side constantly.
13:58He insisted on doing everything himself.
14:01Lying in the warmth of his arms,
14:03I thought again about last time.
14:05Cole was a cold-blooded shifter.
14:07In winter, he gave off no heat at all.
14:10And he hibernated.
14:11While other males made sure their females were fed through the season,
14:14I was out in the snow alone,
14:16Trying to find something edible.
14:17My medical skills kept me fed.
14:19Barely.
14:20The shifters I treated gave me scraps.
14:22But after the ten serpent cubs were born,
14:25Scraps weren't enough.
14:26Cole went into hibernation.
14:28He could survive on stored fat.
14:29The cubs were too young.
14:31They needed real food, constantly.
14:33I foraged alone.
14:35A rabbit, small and not built for winter hunting.
14:38Who didn't dare go far?
14:39I brought back mice.
14:41I brought back frost-bitten berries.
14:43The cubs were good.
14:44All ten of them.
14:44A-rank.
14:45And not one of them ever picked a fight or made trouble.
14:48They helped with the den work.
14:49Thinking about them, my throat closed.
14:51I'd failed them.
14:52I hadn't kept them safe.
14:54A warm weight pressed against my back.
14:57His voice was low.
14:58Sarah, what's wrong?
15:00Nothing.
15:02Just homesick.
15:03Is being with me not enough?
15:05No.
15:06That's not it.
15:07Being with you is the best thing there is.
15:09I changed the subject before he could press further.
15:12I'd assumed I'd never see my sister again.
15:14She showed up at our cave that same night.
15:16Reese heard the sounds first.
15:18Someone moving outside.
15:19Taking things.
15:20He went to check.
15:21I heard a familiar shriek.
15:23I came out to find my sister on her knees in the snow.
15:26Heavily pregnant.
15:27Shaking hard.
15:28Please don't kill me.
15:29White lion, please.
15:30I looked at her in the dark and almost laughed.
15:33She looked up.
15:34Her face shifted when she recognized me.
15:36Sarah, why are you here?
15:38Reese glanced at me.
15:39You know her?
15:40I shook my head.
15:41Never seen her before.
15:43Reese's intent sharpened immediately.
15:45My sister screamed.
15:46Sarah!
15:47Don't let him kill me!
15:49I came all this way to save you!
15:51Sis, it stopped Reese cold.
15:54He pulled back.
15:55Asked me if there had been a misunderstanding.
15:58I sighed.
15:59I walked over to my sister.
16:00What do you want?
16:01I talked to the chieftain.
16:03He said you can come back.
16:05I didn't move.
16:06I mean it.
16:07And Sarah, the tribe is in trouble.
16:09Two settlements are about to go to war.
16:11This whole area is going to become a battlefield.
16:13You two aren't aligned with either side.
16:15You'll get caught in the middle.
16:16Hearing my sister's warning, I remembered.
16:19There had been a war last time.
16:21Shifters were territorial by nature.
16:23Possessive over mates.
16:25Possessive over land.
16:26Two tribes going to war over borders wasn't unusual.
16:30But last time, the war had ended because of my ten serpent cubs hatching.
16:35Ten A-rank shifters born at once.
16:38The opposing tribe, the Ura, had taken one look and surrendered on the spot.
16:42The two settlements merged into one.
16:45The Ura had a powerful shaman.
16:46He was the one who declared me goddess chosen.
16:49Said I carried a rare destiny.
16:51That I had been sent to the tribe as a gift from the beast god.
16:54But I had no interest in my sister's advice.
16:57Reese and I had built something real out here.
16:59There was no reason to go back.
17:01I told her no.
17:03She looked straight at my stomach.
17:05Sarah, you're pregnant, aren't you?
17:07Even if you don't care about yourself, think about the child.
17:10You two can live free out here for now.
17:13But what about later?
17:14What about your cub?
17:15Do you really want to raise a child with no tribe behind them?
17:19That landed.
17:20This world was brutal.
17:22Reese, as strong as he was, had nearly died alone in a cave.
17:26What would happen when our child was born?
17:28What would happen when we were small and the world was full of things that wanted to eat them?
17:33He seemed to read what I was thinking.
17:35He came over and took my hand.
17:37Sarah, let's go back.
17:39After I told my sister yes, she let out a long breath.
17:43Then, is there anything to eat?
17:45She ate like she hadn't seen food in weeks.
17:48Her stomach was enormous, but her arms and legs were thin as sticks.
17:52She'd had it rough.
17:53Not hard to guess why.
17:54Cole had almost certainly gone into hibernation by now.
17:58My sister had never worked hard a day in her life.
18:01Nothing short of starvation would have pushed her out here.
18:04After the meal, she lay down in the outer part of the cave to rest.
18:08Reese folded me into his arms as usual.
18:11My sister glanced over from across the cave.
18:13The look on her face was pure envy.
18:17In the middle of the night, I got up to use the bathroom.
18:20My sister's voice came low through the dark.
18:23Unbelievable.
18:24This life, and she still gets to eat like that.
18:27Bonded to some rankless mutt, and she still got nerve to look pleased with herself.
18:32Come on, little ones.
18:33Come out fast.
18:35Then mom won't have to put up with this anymore.
18:38I stood in the dark and let it wash over me.
18:40Even now, I couldn't fully understand where her hatred came from.
18:44We were twins.
18:45Before we'd ended up here, our parents died and left the two of us to figure out the world together.
18:51I remembered what they'd always said.
18:53You're the older one.
18:54Take care of your sister.
18:56So I did.
18:57I gave way.
18:58Every time.
18:59On everything.
18:59Whatever was best, I let her have it.
19:02Somewhere along the line, she'd decided that was simply how things should be.
19:06I was supposed to give her everything good.
19:08I was supposed to be beneath her.
19:10I wasn't allowed to have things she didn't have.
19:12By the third day back in the tribe, I understood exactly why she'd worked so hard to bring me home.
19:17Her due date was close.
19:19She was terrified of dying on the birthing ground.
19:21She needed me there.
19:22Last time, she'd delivered five times.
19:25Three of those were difficult labors.
19:27I'd gotten her through all three.
19:28There was a second reason, too.
19:30She wanted me to watch.
19:31She wanted me standing there when she produced 20 A-rank serpent shifters and climbed to the top of the
19:37tribe.
19:38She wanted to see my face.
19:40Life back in the tribe wasn't easy.
19:43Even with Reese beside me, plenty of females still looked at me with hostility.
19:47They didn't want me near their mates, so I stayed close to the den.
19:51I can accurately predict major tribal events and spells of bad weather, and it's going to rain soon.
19:56She predicted a few major tribal events and a stretch of bad weather accurately enough that the tribe elevated her
20:03status considerably.
20:04Then the war began.
20:07Reese was sent to the front.
20:11Within days, every fighter in the tribe had noticed that his bite force exceeded that of the A-rank wolf
20:17by a significant margin.
20:19His raw strength was in a different category altogether.
20:23This world ran on strength.
20:25Strength was everything.
20:27And yet, because Reese came out unranked, the wolf shifter grew jealous.
20:33He gathered the other males and turned on Reese.
20:36They sent him alone into an Ura ambush.
20:40When the others had what they needed from the distraction,
20:45they ran, left him there.
20:49I didn't find out until Reese came back with serious wounds.
20:53I went straight to the chieftain.
20:58It's fine, Sarah.
20:59Reese caught my arm, his voice easy.
21:01Even with all of that, they still couldn't touch me.
21:04I came back in one piece, didn't I?
21:06I looked at the cuts across his body.
21:08My eyes burned.
21:11Rix, I'm sorry.
21:12I shouldn't have brought you back here.
21:15This place isn't right for you.
21:19Let's go home.
21:21Back to the cave.
21:22No.
21:23He was suddenly urgent.
21:25If we go back, you'll be homesick again.
21:27We stay here.
21:28As long as you and the cub are safe, I don't care what they do to me.
21:32Something cracked open in my chest.
21:34I remembered what I'd said in the cave.
21:36That I was homesick.
21:37He'd been carrying that the entire time.
21:39He thought I meant the tribe.
21:41You are my home.
21:44Let's go.
21:45Just the two of us.
21:46I want to go with you.
21:48I'd almost convinced him.
21:50Then, a female came sprinting toward us.
21:52Sarah.
21:53Get to your sister's den.
21:55She's going into labor.
21:57I heard the screaming before I reached the entrance.
22:00Blood on the ground.
22:02The same scene as the first time.
22:04Last life.
22:05When she'd had her first bad labor.
22:07Back then, it was the wolf's fault.
22:08His build was large.
22:10The cub inherited the size.
22:11The head got stuck.
22:12But serpent eggs were small.
22:14They should have come out easily.
22:15I got my answer fast.
22:16I helped her deliver ten eggs.
22:18Then, I felt more inside.
22:19I was reaching for the next one when my sister's body seized.
22:23She's convulsing.
22:25Nobody here knew that word.
22:26Find a stone!
22:28They found a smooth stone and pressed it between her teeth so she couldn't bite through her tongue.
22:33I used the moment to pull the rest of the eggs out.
22:35I counted.
22:3620 in total.
22:37She passed out when it was done.
22:39I mixed a tonic and got it down her throat.
22:42Then, turned to Cole.
22:43If she makes it through tonight, she'll live.
22:46If she doesn't, there's nothing more I can do.
22:48I turned to leave.
22:49Cole grabbed my wrist.
22:51She's your sister.
22:53You should stay and take care of her.
22:55Even now.
22:55Even with his female unconscious on the ground from a dangerous labor.
22:59I pulled my wrist free.
23:02She's your mate, not mine.
23:04I'm not responsible for her.
23:07What I'd done was already more than she deserved.
23:11I walked out of the den into the open air.
23:14Reese was waiting outside.
23:17My heart twisted.
23:18What are you doing here?
23:21With wounds that bad, you should be resting in the...
23:23He pulled me into his arms before I could finish.
23:27His voice was rough.
23:28Sarah.
23:31We're not leaving.
23:34I started to ask why.
23:36Then I felt it.
23:36Something warm and wet soaking into my shoulder.
23:39I brought him back to our den.
23:42Pushed him until he talked.
23:44He cried harder.
23:47I look how far it's a mirth.
23:49Reese had been standing outside my sister's den the entire time.
23:52He hadn't known that was what birth looked like.
23:54If I went into labor out in the wilderness and something went wrong,
23:58I felt tears on my own face before I realized.
24:01Rix.
24:02Not everyone has a labor like hers.
24:04Maybe mine will be easy.
24:06Then we're still not leaving.
24:07His voice didn't waver.
24:10Even if the chance is one in a hundred,
24:12I won't let you suffer.
24:13I'll see he rather out there.
24:14I won't let you hear it anymore.
24:14What sleep can be anything else?
24:14What?
24:15How do you?
24:16How about this place?
24:16Me too.
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