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Posted on March 26, 2015 at 03:22:02 AM by birch
Something was wrong. Birch felt it with a bone-deep certainty, but - maddeningly enough - couldn't put a finger on what, exactly, it was. She knew the baby was fine; as soon as she'd felt the nerves set in she'd gone first to Danny and then, at his insistence, Dr. Gupta, just to be sure. And Torram was fine, although he'd spent more and more time locked away in one of the spare bedrooms lately, and kept her out of it with the stubborn determination of a bulldog. That left only one person she could think of, Jacopo, and worrying for him was driving her mad. She hadn't seen him in... it felt like weeks; he didn't even know about the baby who now fluttered occasionally beneath her heart. She'd planned to do it, kept planning to do it, but... the timing just had never been right, or something else had come up, or... The excuses, she supposed, would have to stop soon. No man would miss the small bump forming at her midsection for long. That was, she supposed, if she could track him down.
Feeling anxiety gnawing at her belly, Birch tried to stay active. She visited Danny at the clinic and helped calm a young girl who was getting stitches, then pestered Torram into going on a walk with her around the Castle gardens (mostly, she could admit, in hopes of seeing Jac). Unable to find him there, Birch had felt herself grow both more anxious and more frustrated, and had locked herself in her room for a time to worry and pace and growl without upsetting Torram. Where could he have gone? And why hadn't he told her? Surely he hadn't left Shaman - the Ancient Creature saw to that - so... was he avoiding her, then? As soon as the thought came Birch shook it off; of course that wasn't it. He had no reason to, since he didn't know of their child yet, and more than that... Jacopo just wasn't that sort, no matter how gruff he might appear on the outside. Unable to bear the worry for another second, Birch strode outside and set out to search every single nook and cranny she'd discovered in her time as a guard until she found Jacopo and told him. And then, because the Fates were funny like that, her mad search came to a grinding halt before it could even begin because there, standing in the twilight, was a fox-like creature. Birch thought nothing of it at first, and made to step past it, when she saw there, gleaming on a chain about his throat, not one but two runestones. Birch hesitated, her mind and her heart each screaming for attention in that moment. Her heart said Find Jac! and her mind, her mind reminded her of duty, of her responsibility not only to the king but to Shaman... And then that sneaky mind of hers added, think of the world your child will grow in. Swearing hotly, Birch turned towards the fox; perhaps she would be able to retrieve the stones easily, and could resume her search for Jac in no time. But when she looked again the fox was gone... |
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