Just beyond the scent markers of the Ridge she had dared to walk, where the thick scent of @Hagar would still envelope her. She just...needed a moment.

She was not embarrassed of the sickness of her pregnancy and the way it swung her with nausea every day. She only wished to spare everybody the worst of it when it overcame her. Like the snowy afternoon.

Snowy.

She was pregnant and the world still found itself dusted with cold powder. She just hoped that it ceased by the time they were earthbound. A thought that excited her as much as it did terrify her in a magical way. Never before had she brought forth life like this. She had left it to the other women her first year, despite the delicacies of her position.

Now she was wedded to her bearkissed, under the cloak of willows and ice. She was inclined to believe that this was the furthest any of her family had ever made it.

She was free from Snake's Ravine, her children would be free of it too. She loved them already, even if they drove her to suddenly spill forth with sickness. The contents of her breakfast came up in a rather hushed splatter against the snowy ground.

"Behave," She begged in a near already-motherly tone. Begged the children within to let her safely breathe for a moment, to enjoy the silent world before it bloomed with the cries of babes.

A man.

One with enough sense to submit himself before her. In this way they would both be vulnerable, and not just her. Although she imagined a husband lingered close, protective of both her and the Ridge as a whole.

Bearkissed would let no harm fall upon her.

"Are you a healer then?"

She steadied herself to appear as nothing other than neutral. Not until she knew what sort of man had come to her aid so swiftly. Perhaps he was a midwife, it was not unheard of. Even if she trusted Rashina to tend to her well above all.

It would not hurt to have another useful body around...