N.asa is not sure whom she expected to show up in her most vulnerable state but both relief and anxiety flooded her as her eyes settled on Bjorn's form. The flood of emotion made her feel hysterical, likely more due to postpartum hormones and the fact that she had endured the pregnancy alone and lost. It was her fault, her own volition that had kept her from joining the Inlet till now.



You do not need to be afraid anymore.




His words reverberate in her mind as she recalls their coupling. If N.asa had thought that one day, Diana would happen, she could not have predicted it. Could not have predicted that her heart rested with the Bear King of the Inlet. "Bjorn?" Her voice cracks as she allows her heaving chest to still. "I...I, I'm sorry I did not come sooner. I didn't know what to do." Her voice quiet and rushed. Did she owe him an explanation? She supposed she should have sought him out and she didn't know if he would understand. Her eyes avert to their daughter, the tiny filly squirmed in her attempt to stand. N.asa softens at what they'd created, her body stilling as the hysterics had passed and her mind became present in the moment. "I have named her Diana. Of the hunt," she remarks tenderly, her nose coaxing the filly to her wobbling feet. She gently guides her to her hind, encouraging her to drink before returning her gaze the Bjorn. "Can I stay?" She doesn't imply for what length of time, because the sense of home had long been an absent feeling to her; but she did feel at home when Bjorn was near. Perhaps this would be where she found it again.