William and Company

Nervously wringing her hands, Maple walked through the relatively small castle and soon found her faerie settled in a chair in the sun with a book, swallowing very unsure how her faerie was going to react to the news. Ever the well trained pet she naturally decided that she'd tell him first before even telling her mate, moving to sit on the chair next to him instead of seeing if she could snuggle with him. Fidgeting a little until she managed to gather her strength "Atrel... I have something to tell you" she hadn't imagined it'd be this hard to get out, at the same time she knew she had to no matter the consequences "I'm about a month and a half pregnant" She'd been allowed to keep and raise Lorelai and so ther ewas the hope that she might be allowed to keep this baby, one that was hers and sorens biologically. Lori would always be her child, but she'd always wanted more than just one.

So well trained to obey she didn't draw back when he took her hand and tugged her close, the question only making her frown "No, I'm Scared, i havent even told Soren yet" Oh how she was scared about telling the griffin, he was very much still a baby even though they'd had Lori to raise together. Unable to help herself she moved away from him not that interested in touch, feeling wary and on guard, she already knew she wanted the baby and the more she pondered on it the more stubborn she became when it came to digging her heels in and keeping it. "I want to keep it" usually so gentle so placid and obedient, motherhood changed her into a being that would do anything to protect her offspring. Of course she'd have to find out just what he'd do with her baby, she found the idea of him selling her child off to someone else to be repugnant. There were so many variables that it was impossible to be anything apart from anxious and wound up about what could happen.

Swallowing hard and reassuring herself that he wasn't angry with her, Maple crossed her arms defensively and took a breath at the question of what was scaring her. She gritted her teeth about to answer it when he added that yes she was allowed to keep it, naturally the red head lost some of the tension in her shoulders. "That you'll sell it off to the highest bidder" she'd been with him long enough to have picked up on how the other Faeries treated their pets and handled their offspring. The offspring were just like cattle they meant nothing, something to be made money off, she didn't want her precious baby to be taken away from her like Lori had ended up being taken, she was well aware how lucky she was that Sofia actually allowed Lori to visit. Wringing her hands again having unfolded her arms without really registering it, so very resolute for once about standing up for something.

The question caused Maple to sigh and meet his gaze, Green eyes unusually steely "I don't know. With Lori you told me what was happening and i had to like it, How am I to know if it'll be any different this time? I've seen how other faeries treat their pets offspring" speaking firmly, she continued "I don't want my child being sold off to the highest bidder, I want him or her to stay belonging to you, at least that way i know they'll be well taken care of. No I dont intend to spout out heaps of kids, I dont want anymore for the long forseeable future" if he said that he'd want to sell off her child then she'd choose to not have him or her, the thought of that made the girls teeth grit as a bitter feeling washed over her. Brushing her hair back out of her face, Maple got sick of it quickly and tied it back so it stayed out of her face, waiting for his response, if one paid close attention the hair on her arms was sticking on end a subtle warning she wouldn't take much provoking to shift into her wolf form.

Watching him sigh and sort his thoughts, she didn't say anything else waiting for him to respond, he leant back in the chair after reminding her that it had been sofies rules that had dictated what happened with Lori. Finally he continued explaining he found selling pets to be rather irksome and that he had little intention of selling her child unless he had no other choice which soothed her, plenty of the tension leaving her shoulders. Nodding when he mentioned that if she wanted to keep it, it'd be collared and trained properly "Yes, I agree to that, I'll help you Train him or her and do what i can" moving towards him, tension gone now she had got what she wanted for her baby which was a certainty of what was going to happen with the life that was growing within her. Standing much closer to him now than she had been before, most of the tension gone and a glimmer of happiness starting to shine in her green eyes once again.

Accepting the hand she sat down on him and leaned into him closing her eyes and listening to him talk to her, the familiar voice soothing her more "Of course I am" snuggling into him she continued "Yes I will i suppose, I'm unsure how he'll take it, its different to when we had Lori after all "sighing the pet opened her arms and sat up properly to look at him "I think the best way to begin training the baby will be right from day one, always be a big part of his or her life if that makes sense" hopefully she wouldn't have to explain it too much because she wasn't sure how to if she was perfectly honest. There was some sort of instinct that told her that he needed to be highly involved with her offspring "I'd like to be allowed to go to visit Folly at some point before he or her is born too please Atrel" back to her usual self maple leaned back against him snuggling happily .

Not so sure she believed him about Soren as she knew that raising someone elses child as your own and actually raising something you'd fathered could be quite a big difference for him. Her usual gentle smile curled her lips upwards when he nuzzled his nose into her hair, staying there for a few moments before she moved to stand knowing it was better to get it out to soren sooner rather than later. "As soon as I'm allowed or its convenient please, excuse me i should go let Soren know, and... thank you" Folly would be happy, she'd wanted maple to be able to have a proper family for quite some time, things would be easier between them now too, it wouldn't hurt as much to have to sit and watch Folly with her perfect family. Nobody was perfect but it'd seemed for quite some time that she'd had everything that Maple hadn't, after a brief wave at the Faerie Maple went off in search of Soren, she knew where to look thankfully he was quite reliable when it came to his sleeping places. Finding him perched fast asleep, Maple padded closer and tapped him "Soren? Wake up, I have something important to share with you" he was still such a baby brain, and that was what she worried about, she'd had to prevent him quite a few times from trying to feed baby Lori mice and other things that humans weren't supposed to eat and she couldn't see it being any easier to get him out of that idea. That and she had no idea what kind of animal shape their offspring would be, would he be a griffin or a wolf? Perhaps the dragon that had changed her into a wolf would know but there was no way that she was going to ask him, shivering at the old memories, Maple hugged herself "Soren wake up!"speaking a little more sharply she poked him harder wanting to get out what she had to say and get it over and done with already.

She couldn't help the smile at the ticklish feathers when her mate nuzzled into her neck "I'm pregnant Soren" as he was still such a baby she hadn't exactly expected him to be able to reproduce so young for a griffin. Lifting a hand she stroked him gently "I talked to Atrel about it, he's going to let me keep it and train it as a pet of his" she was quite relieved that he'd allowed her to do so, she was hopeful that Soren would react positively, he was a gentle creature and she loved him very much, enough that she considered him her mate although she'd never actually called him that outloud. Glancing at him, Maple waited for the bird brains response, she didn't expect Soren to be allowed to come with her to folly's this time and even if she could she wasn't sure she would, it'd be nice to spend some time with just her and folly to talk about everything.

Smiling slightly at the feeling of her griffin cuddling into her, Maple stroked him gently pausing at the confused noise, looking at him however at his reaction the woman relaxed. "Just one Soren" smiling properly as he rubbed his beak against her cheek gently"Keeping forever" thankful that he didn't seem upset although she doubted he'd completely figured out what it all meant. Kissing his beak gently the red head smiled, "I presume you have questions feather duster?", teasing her mate with a slightly cheeky smile, walking down to the kitchens with Soren on her shoulder, maple made some jam on toast and found a place to sit in the sun to eat it happily. She loved living at the castle in the valley, it was so beautiful and it felt safe there.

The ten month old had been keeping his mother busy all day, now that he'd figured out his crawling he was into everything and that included trying different things in his mouth. It'd been a long ten months for his mother maple, she'd done her best however and had only in the past week come back from visiting Follys with her son William, the child had seemed to enjoy his time with Auntie folly. Escaping out of the pets quarters, the bright red head who had eyes just like his mothers, indeed it'd seemed that he'd taken little from his father aside from his gender as he also had his mothers beauty. Giggling away to himself the little boy looked about for some sort of mischief to get into, spotting the person that currently was also a parent, Will crawled over and bumped into the faeries leg before sitting down and grinning up at him showing pearly newly showing white baby teeth. Reaching up wanting to be picked up, will made a hopeful sound wanting cuddles

Gurgling to himself the child snuggled into the faerie quite used to spending time with the prince, listening as Atrel mentioned his mother "muh muh muh" chewing on one of his hands while staring around with bright green eyes. His hair wasn't as curly as his mothers, having more of his fathers straightness to it, indeed he didn't look much like his father at all, even as a chubby child he seemed to reveal some sort of elf character out of a fictional novel than anything else. Grabbing onto the desks edge quite happy there, the small child was peering over the desk when Katherine walked in quietly and paused to watch the pair of them with some amusement.