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Carried Off: Beloved, a DreamWorks' How to Train Your Dragon fanfic by Raberba girl

Chapter 5 (rough draft)

This silly troop of juveniles came with us, and now they're teaching the fledglings how to do silly crazy useless fun tricks. "Now close your wings, close your wings!"

"?! But I will fall if I do that!"

"YES, YES, FALL~!" the juveniles crow gleefully, and they do it to show the fledglings. Our trick that Half Of Me taught us, I miss Him so much I miss Him so much I miss Him so much.... The fledglings are shocked and confused and a little scared.

"Stop that!" I roar. "Crazy useless fun tricks are for people who already know how to fly. They are fledglings, this is their first hunting flight, don't scare and confuse them!"

A fledgling closes her wings and drops. She screams and struggles and snaps out her wings again but she's all wrong now, ugh stupid younglings her wings are all wrong and can't catch the wind, now I have to save her.

"I SAID DON'T DO CRAZY TRICKS UNTIL AFTER YOU LEARN TO FLY WELL."

"Sorry, sorry...!"

"YOU TROOP, SILLY BAD TROOP DISTRACTING THEM, GO AWAY."

I teach the fledglings some more, a few of them catch fish but the rest of them are so bad at it, uuuuggghhh I'm so frustrated, I don't like younglings, Friend likes them better, I wish he was here to teach them instead of me.... We have to finish this hunting-flight soon, a storm is coming.

"NIGHTWING!" That is a guardian, she is rushing toward us, there is danger?! But no, she's very much excited...? "NIGHTWING, GO HOME GO HOME GO HOOOOOME!"

"Danger?! Danger?!" Why is she so happy if there's danger?!

"NOT DANGER! NIGHTWING GO HOME! HALF OF YOU CAME BACK!"

WHAT. No. No, this is an impossible thing, Half Of Me is gone forever, but my wings are pumping and I'm rushing rushing rushing home, if it's a trick joke bad not-true thing I will be SO UPSET.

"Half Of Me...?! Half Of Me...?!"

I dive into the nest and I know where He is now, Friend is there Friend brought Him, Alpha is talking to Him, our flockmates are greeting Him.

Him, my Half Of Me. I rush to Him, something's wrong with Him but there's always been something wrong with Him, and it doesn't matter now because even though monsters I can't fight are still riding Him, He sees me and He wants me and He's reaching for me, He wants me, He wants me. He's not leaving me. He came back, He wants to be close to me.

"HALF OF ME HALF OF ME HALF OF ME. MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE."

"Mine...mine...." He's so weak with grief, but now it's wants-to-be-with-me grief instead of wants-to-leave-me grief. He crawls onto my back and we fly, at last we are together and two-who-are-one again.

We fly straight into the storm. The wind tears at my wings and tries to tear Half Of Me from my back, but it's okay. We fly together and roar together and fight the storm together, and we win.

o.o.o.o.o

Something is wrong with my other half. It's like his children who are so precious to Him were both His other halves, too. It's like He lost them and is dying of grief like me-who-was, except He is giving His whole self to me and not-dying because I'm His third other half and I'm still alive. He is dying and not-dying at the same time, these monsters who ride Him are so cruel and I hate that I can't fight them.

The only time He's good and whole is when we are flying together, but He's so broken the rest of the time that He needs to fly so much, and He wears me out. I want so much to help Him, but my body isn't strong enough.

"Let me fly him." Friend takes Half Of Me away back into the sky, and I rest.

I sleep for so long, I don't wake up until Friend comes back, Friend is exhausted and now he needs to sleep, but Half Of Me is already begging, "Toothless, fly?" Yes, I will fly Him...I hope that Friend is rested enough to fly Him again when I come back too tired. Will Half Of Me ever get tired? Will He be fleeing His grief forever?

o.o.o.o.o

He needs to fly so much, our flockmates start helping us. I'm so tired, I hear Him wailing out there, I must go tend to Him and comfort Him.... No, Falls picked Him up, He's flying with Falls now so He stopped crying. I can sleep a little more.

o.o.o.o.o

"Listen to me." Alpha is giving orders to the whole flock. "Our flockmate Human, he is heart-sick. His troop is taking care of him as best they can, but his heart is very much strong and this sickness runs very deep into it, so sometimes his sickness is too powerful for them. All of you must be alert. When he falls, you must catch him; when he is cold, you must warm him; when he is hungry, you must feed him. He is too heart-sick to take care of himself, so if we don't take care of him, he will die."

I'm scared that I can't make my Half Of Me better, but at least our whole flock will help me tend to Him now....

o.o.o.o.o

Half Of Me is asleep with Friend, worn out from fleeing His grief and from talking to Alpha. Now Alpha wants to talk to me. "I don't know if humans are monsters or not monsters."

"My human is not a monster anymore!"

"Broken is not a monster. Clever Paws was not a monster. But they are only two, and the humans who cause so much pain are many...."

"It was humans who hurt Half Of Me, yes?"

"Yes...I am disturbed when he tells me of it...."

"What did they do to Him, to break Him so much?!"

"So hard to understand. His children, yes? His. He loves them like he loves you, he is their sire who takes care of them and raises them...why did they take them away from him??"

"WHO TOOK MY HALF'S PRECIOUS THINGS AWAY FROM HIM?!" I will kill them and retrieve His precious things and bring them back to Him!

"So strange and disturbing. His own pack, his own mate. He was kind and helped dragons escape from captivity, but this is a terrible crime in his pack?!?! Why?! Why?! He did this very good thing, but they say he is bad, they punish him so cruelly, they keep his precious things with them but they drive him out away from the pack, if he did not have a flock here to retrieve him and love him, he would die! Why would they do such a terrible thing when he did nothing wrong?! Why? I don't understand it...I don't understand it...."

"THIS HUMAN PACK IS CRAZY AND ROTTEN AND BAD. WE WILL BURN IT UNTIL ALL OF IT IS BLACK AND DEAD. But not Half Of Me's precious things, we will save them first and bring them here safe to Him. THEN we will burn His horrible bad rotten nest."

"He said no. Why? He said no. He wanted to do this thing, but he said no, so much death and pain is bad, he says we must let these monsters live, he says he must spare them because they are his packmates-who-were.... This strange terrifying human love. Human love means you value parents and littermates and mates and offspring ONLY because they are your parents and littermates and mates and offspring; human love means you do not turn on your packmates even when they turn on you, ONLY because they are your packmates; human love means that you love your babies and miss them so much and grieve to be away from them ONLY because they are your babies; human love...human love is crazy and hurts so much."

I'm shivering as I listen to Alpha. He can talk with my human other half but even He can't understand humans.

"It hurts so much," Alpha says, "but human love can protect a whole human pack from a very much stronger dragon flock; human love can connect a parent and child even though they lost each other forever; a human with human love can shield a nightwing who stole him and hurt him and took him for his own even though he didn't give himself to him; human love means one can have an other half and another other half and another, all at the same time; human love can make one two halves with someone who caused him so much pain.... Human love is so powerful and terrifying, I don't understand it."

I'm frightened. And...awed. "Alpha? ...Is Half Of Me a king?" He can't be a sea-king because He is not a sea creature, and He can't be a sky-king because He can't even fly on His own. Maybe He is a land-king??

"This is what I wonder. I think maybe yes."

I'm shocked. How can anyone BREAK a king?! How?! But...to break someone so very much, and for Him to still be alive and still have love in His heart...only a king could do that.

"...I must take very good care of my broken land-king Half Of Me."

"Yes."

o.o.o.o.o

Half Of Me is one of those people, like Friend. It's not just His own babies that He loves; He loves ALL BABIES. I do not like babies! It's difficult to be a doesn't-like-babies person whose troopmates love babies...!

"I love you," Half Of Me tells so many babies, laughing His human laughter. "You are adorable and sweet and precious and funny, and it makes me feel good to take care of you~"

That is why I have to let Half Of me love babies! I do not like that He loves them, but I like that they make Him feel better. Aaaaggghhhh, this is difficult and annoying....

"Broken!" Whiptail comes to greet Half Of Me.

"Well, hey there, you. And aaaawww, look who we have here!" Half Of Me crouches down to show affection to her eager brood.

"Hello, Broken!" Whiptail says. I know what she wants, noooooo.... "I will leave and rest, and you will take care of my babies until I come back."

"Yaaaayyyy!" her hatchlings cheer, "New toy!" Their mother flies away.

"Whoa, wait, you forgot your kids! Uh.... Well, I guess I'm babysitting you guys?" He laughs even though that little green one is pulling on Him too hard and hurting Him! "Ow, haha. Hey, little guy, let's gnaw on something else, okay?" He picks up a seal bone toy and teases the hatchlings with it.

"Yaaaahhh, get the monster dead thing!"

"Yaaahhhhh!!!"

"Whoa! Haha, man, you guys are rambunctious...!"

o.o.o.o.o

I wake up because Half Of Me is crying in His human way that makes me nervous, wailing with salt water streaming down His face.

I start to comfort Him, but one of the older hatchlings is already here, crooning and rubbing her face against His and letting Him squeeze her hard with His forelegs even though it pins her wings. "It's okay, Broken, it's okay," she croons, "you are safe here in this good nest with these flockmates who love you, they are surrounding you protecting you, I love you, we will fill up your heart with love until there is no more room for grief."

He's still whimpering and clutching her, but He's quieter now and I think it's good for Him to have a person who's small enough for Him to cover with His body. Maybe it reminds Him of His small lost babies that He would hold like that, or maybe He's so small and defenseless that it's very frustrating to be dominated and protected all the time, maybe He needs someone weaker than Him that He can protect and make Him feel strong. I comfort Him, too. She is warming up at Him and I am warming down at Him, together we cover Him and reassure Him.

"I miss them so much...I miss them...so...much...."

I like this hatchling. She is very young, but she still loves Half Of Me and protects Him from the other hatchlings and wants to take care of Him. She worries about Him when she has to leave Him, so she's trying to grow up fast fast fast so she can leave her parents and join our troop and be close to Half Of Me more often.

o.o.o.o.o

Nooooooooooo, I do not like babies!!

I should not have to raise babies! I have no mate, my other half did not die and leave orphans for me to raise - but He adopted them. He adopted them, these two eggs with no parents, and now they will be His babies. He will be their new mama and I'm His other half so I have to be their papa and they will say "Mine mine mine!" about their mama even though He's mine, and they're babies so I can't tell them they're wrong. I DON'T LIKE IT.

"It's okay, Friend," says Friend. "I will help you."

"I will help, too~!" Hen cheers. (Half Of Me's sound-name for her is "Hen," so I keep thinking that sound when I think of her.) "Friend Broken my human will have babies~ I will help him take care of them and be a good mama to them!"

Half Of Me is a good mama because He loves His babies so much. He is not a very good dragon mama, but that's not His fault, it's only because He's human and doesn't know any better, and it's okay because I and Friend and Hen are all good dragons and we help. He is a good mama on His own, and He's a good dragon mama because He has His whole troop to help him.

The eggs hatch at night. Half Of Me is startled at first, He thinks there is danger?? There are very many things He doesn't know, maybe He doesn't know His eggs are hatching even though Friend is trying to tell Him to go tend to His baby that just hatched, and all the other dragons are trying to stay away so that Half Of Me will be the first adult His baby sees and he will know He is his mama.

"Hungry, hungry! Confused uncomfortable I don't like it hungry!" the hatchling cries. Why won't his mama go to him???

The second egg hatches, Half Of Me rushes to shield Himself. Oh! His soft flesh will get hurt if those hot sharp pieces of shell hit Him!

But it's okay now, Half Of Me is safe, and now He's finally going to His babies. "I am your mama, this is my scent, I love you." That's all He says, He won't clean them very well or mark them properly, siiigh.

I wait until the hatchlings know for sure who their mama is, then I go to feed them so they'll shut up. I'm a little comforted when my other half caresses me and tells me I did well.

Ohhh...He was waiting. He was scared to leave His new babies the way He lost His old ones, but now that I'm here to watch over them, He leaves to get His not-tongue cleaning things and then He comes back. He won't use His tongue because He's a silly human, but He still cleans the birth-slime off of His babies.

I already know He can't mark His children because He can't mark us very well, either, but it's okay, He has troopmates to help Him and make good marks on His babies for him. Alpha marks them as His new flocklings and is very happy because Half Of Me is finally, FINALLY mostly happy. It was very good to let Him adopt these orphans. The precious things that He lost and grieved so much for were His children, so now He has children again to be precious to Him and soothe His pain.

We take care of the new babies, and now they are tired and so are we. They find their mama and curl into Him, He is very soft for them to rest against. I lie down with my other half; I am very good for Him to rest against. Our whole troop is safe and together, and finally, finally, finally, our human that we love is happy.

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Carried Off: Beloved, a DreamWorks' How to Train Your Dragon fanfic by Raberba girl

Chapter 5 (rough draft)

This silly troop of juveniles came with us, and now they're teaching the fledglings how to do silly crazy useless fun tricks. "Now close your wings, close your wings!"

"?! But I will fall if I do that!"

"YES, YES, FALL~!" the juveniles crow gleefully, and they do it to show the fledglings. Our trick that Half Of Me taught us, I miss Him so much I miss Him so much I miss Him so much.... The fledglings are shocked and confused and a little scared.

"Stop that!" I roar. "Crazy useless fun tricks are for people who already know how to fly. They are fledglings, this is their first hunting flight, don't scare and confuse them!"

A fledgling closes her wings and drops. She screams and struggles and snaps out her wings again but she's all wrong now, ugh stupid younglings her wings are all wrong and can't catch the wind, now I have to save her.

"I SAID DON'T DO CRAZY TRICKS UNTIL AFTER YOU LEARN TO FLY WELL."

"Sorry, sorry...!"

"YOU TROOP, SILLY BAD TROOP DISTRACTING THEM, GO AWAY."

I teach the fledglings some more, a few of them catch fish but the rest of them are so bad at it, uuuuggghhh I'm so frustrated, I don't like younglings, Friend likes them better, I wish he was here to teach them instead of me.... We have to finish this hunting-flight soon, a storm is coming.

"NIGHTWING!" That is a guardian, she is rushing toward us, there is danger?! But no, she's very much excited...? "NIGHTWING, GO HOME GO HOME GO HOOOOOME!"

"Danger?! Danger?!" Why is she so happy if there's danger?!

"NOT DANGER! NIGHTWING GO HOME! HALF OF YOU CAME BACK!"

WHAT. No. No, this is an impossible thing, Half Of Me is gone forever, but my wings are pumping and I'm rushing rushing rushing home, if it's a trick joke bad not-true thing I will be SO UPSET.

"Half Of Me...?! Half Of Me...?!"

I dive into the nest and I know where He is now, Friend is there Friend brought Him, Alpha is talking to Him, our flockmates are greeting Him.

Him, my Half Of Me. I rush to Him, something's wrong with Him but there's always been something wrong with Him, and it doesn't matter now because even though monsters I can't fight are still riding Him, He sees me and He wants me and He's reaching for me, He wants me, He wants me. He's not leaving me. He came back, He wants to be close to me.

"HALF OF ME HALF OF ME HALF OF ME. MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE."

"Mine...mine...." He's so weak with grief, but now it's wants-to-be-with-me grief instead of wants-to-leave-me grief. He crawls onto my back and we fly, at last we are together and two-who-are-one again.

We fly straight into the storm. The wind tears at my wings and tries to tear Half Of Me from my back, but it's okay. We fly together and roar together and fight the storm together, and we win.

o.o.o.o.o

Something is wrong with my other half. It's like his children who are so precious to Him were both His other halves, too. It's like He lost them and is dying of grief like me-who-was, except He is giving His whole self to me and not-dying because I'm His third other half and I'm still alive. He is dying and not-dying at the same time, these monsters who ride Him are so cruel and I hate that I can't fight them.

The only time He's good and whole is when we are flying together, but He's so broken the rest of the time that He needs to fly so much, and He wears me out. I want so much to help Him, but my body isn't strong enough.

"Let me fly him." Friend takes Half Of Me away back into the sky, and I rest.

I sleep for so long, I don't wake up until Friend comes back, Friend is exhausted and now he needs to sleep, but Half Of Me is already begging, "Toothless, fly?" Yes, I will fly Him...I hope that Friend is rested enough to fly Him again when I come back too tired. Will Half Of Me ever get tired? Will He be fleeing His grief forever?

o.o.o.o.o

He needs to fly so much, our flockmates start helping us. I'm so tired, I hear Him wailing out there, I must go tend to Him and comfort Him.... No, Falls picked Him up, He's flying with Falls now so He stopped crying. I can sleep a little more.

o.o.o.o.o

"Listen to me." Alpha is giving orders to the whole flock. "Our flockmate Human, he is heart-sick. His troop is taking care of him as best they can, but his heart is very much strong and this sickness runs very deep into it, so sometimes his sickness is too powerful for them. All of you must be alert. When he falls, you must catch him; when he is cold, you must warm him; when he is hungry, you must feed him. He is too heart-sick to take care of himself, so if we don't take care of him, he will die."

I'm scared that I can't make my Half Of Me better, but at least our whole flock will help me tend to Him now....

o.o.o.o.o

Half Of Me is asleep with Friend, worn out from fleeing His grief and from talking to Alpha. Now Alpha wants to talk to me. "I don't know if humans are monsters or not monsters."

"My human is not a monster anymore!"

"Broken is not a monster. Clever Paws was not a monster. But they are only two, and the humans who cause so much pain are many...."

"It was humans who hurt Half Of Me, yes?"

"Yes...I am disturbed when he tells me of it...."

"What did they do to Him, to break Him so much?!"

"So hard to understand. His children, yes? His. He loves them like he loves you, he is their sire who takes care of them and raises them...why did they take them away from him??"

"WHO TOOK MY HALF'S PRECIOUS THINGS AWAY FROM HIM?!" I will kill them and retrieve His precious things and bring them back to Him!

"So strange and disturbing. His own pack, his own mate. He was kind and helped dragons escape from captivity, but this is a terrible crime in his pack?!?! Why?! Why?! He did this very good thing, but they say he is bad, they punish him so cruelly, they keep his precious things with them but they drive him out away from the pack, if he did not have a flock here to retrieve him and love him, he would die! Why would they do such a terrible thing when he did nothing wrong?! Why? I don't understand it...I don't understand it...."

"THIS HUMAN PACK IS CRAZY AND ROTTEN AND BAD. WE WILL BURN IT UNTIL ALL OF IT IS BLACK AND DEAD. But not Half Of Me's precious things, we will save them first and bring them here safe to Him. THEN we will burn His horrible bad rotten nest."

"He said no. Why? He said no. He wanted to do this thing, but he said no, so much death and pain is bad, he says we must let these monsters live, he says he must spare them because they are his packmates-who-were.... This strange terrifying human love. Human love means you value parents and littermates and mates and offspring ONLY because they are your parents and littermates and mates and offspring; human love means you do not turn on your packmates even when they turn on you, ONLY because they are your packmates; human love means that you love your babies and miss them so much and grieve to be away from them ONLY because they are your babies; human love...human love is crazy and hurts so much."

I'm shivering as I listen to Alpha. He can talk with my human other half but even He can't understand humans.

"It hurts so much," Alpha says, "but human love can protect a whole human pack from a very much stronger dragon flock; human love can connect a parent and child even though they lost each other forever; a human with human love can shield a nightwing who stole him and hurt him and took him for his own even though he didn't give himself to him; human love means one can have an other half and another other half and another, all at the same time; human love can make one two halves with someone who caused him so much pain.... Human love is so powerful and terrifying, I don't understand it."

I'm frightened. And...awed. "Alpha? ...Is Half Of Me a king?" He can't be a sea-king because He is not a sea creature, and He can't be a sky-king because He can't even fly on His own. Maybe He is a land-king??

"This is what I wonder. I think maybe yes."

I'm shocked. How can anyone BREAK a king?! How?! But...to break someone so very much, and for Him to still be alive and still have love in His heart...only a king could do that.

"...I must take very good care of my broken land-king Half Of Me."

"Yes."

o.o.o.o.o

Half Of Me is one of those people, like Friend. It's not just His own babies that He loves; He loves ALL BABIES. I do not like babies! It's difficult to be a doesn't-like-babies person whose troopmates love babies...!

"I love you," Half Of Me tells so many babies, laughing His human laughter. "You are adorable and sweet and precious and funny, and it makes me feel good to take care of you~"

That is why I have to let Half Of me love babies! I do not like that He loves them, but I like that they make Him feel better. Aaaaggghhhh, this is difficult and annoying....

"Broken!" Whiptail comes to greet Half Of Me.

"Well, hey there, you. And aaaawww, look who we have here!" Half Of Me crouches down to show affection to her eager brood.

"Hello, Broken!" Whiptail says. I know what she wants, noooooo.... "I will leave and rest, and you will take care of my babies until I come back."

"Yaaaayyyy!" her hatchlings cheer, "New toy!" Their mother flies away.

"Whoa, wait, you forgot your kids! Uh.... Well, I guess I'm babysitting you guys?" He laughs even though that little green one is pulling on Him too hard and hurting Him! "Ow, haha. Hey, little guy, let's gnaw on something else, okay?" He picks up a seal bone toy and teases the hatchlings with it.

"Yaaaahhh, get the monster dead thing!"

"Yaaahhhhh!!!"

"Whoa! Haha, man, you guys are rambunctious...!"

o.o.o.o.o

I wake up because Half Of Me is crying in His human way that makes me nervous, wailing with salt water streaming down His face.

I start to comfort Him, but one of the older hatchlings is already here, crooning and rubbing her face against His and letting Him squeeze her hard with His forelegs even though it pins her wings. "It's okay, Broken, it's okay," she croons, "you are safe here in this good nest with these flockmates who love you, they are surrounding you protecting you, I love you, we will fill up your heart with love until there is no more room for grief."

He's still whimpering and clutching her, but He's quieter now and I think it's good for Him to have a person who's small enough for Him to cover with His body. Maybe it reminds Him of His small lost babies that He would hold like that, or maybe He's so small and defenseless that it's very frustrating to be dominated and protected all the time, maybe He needs someone weaker than Him that He can protect and make Him feel strong. I comfort Him, too. She is warming up at Him and I am warming down at Him, together we cover Him and reassure Him.

"I miss them so much...I miss them...so...much...."

I like this hatchling. She is very young, but she still loves Half Of Me and protects Him from the other hatchlings and wants to take care of Him. She worries about Him when she has to leave Him, so she's trying to grow up fast fast fast so she can leave her parents and join our troop and be close to Half Of Me more often.

o.o.o.o.o

Nooooooooooo, I do not like babies!!

I should not have to raise babies! I have no mate, my other half did not die and leave orphans for me to raise - but He adopted them. He adopted them, these two eggs with no parents, and now they will be His babies. He will be their new mama and I'm His other half so I have to be their papa and they will say "Mine mine mine!" about their mama even though He's mine, and they're babies so I can't tell them they're wrong. I DON'T LIKE IT.

"It's okay, Friend," says Friend. "I will help you."

"I will help, too~!" Hen cheers. (Half Of Me's sound-name for her is "Hen," so I keep thinking that sound when I think of her.) "Friend Broken my human will have babies~ I will help him take care of them and be a good mama to them!"

Half Of Me is a good mama because He loves His babies so much. He is not a very good dragon mama, but that's not His fault, it's only because He's human and doesn't know any better, and it's okay because I and Friend and Hen are all good dragons and we help. He is a good mama on His own, and He's a good dragon mama because He has His whole troop to help him.

The eggs hatch at night. Half Of Me is startled at first, He thinks there is danger?? There are very many things He doesn't know, maybe He doesn't know His eggs are hatching even though Friend is trying to tell Him to go tend to His baby that just hatched, and all the other dragons are trying to stay away so that Half Of Me will be the first adult His baby sees and he will know He is his mama.

"Hungry, hungry! Confused uncomfortable I don't like it hungry!" the hatchling cries. Why won't his mama go to him???

The second egg hatches, Half Of Me rushes to shield Himself. Oh! His soft flesh will get hurt if those hot sharp pieces of shell hit Him!

But it's okay now, Half Of Me is safe, and now He's finally going to His babies. "I am your mama, this is my scent, I love you." That's all He says, He won't clean them very well or mark them properly, siiigh.

I wait until the hatchlings know for sure who their mama is, then I go to feed them so they'll shut up. I'm a little comforted when my other half caresses me and tells me I did well.

Ohhh...He was waiting. He was scared to leave His new babies the way He lost His old ones, but now that I'm here to watch over them, He leaves to get His not-tongue cleaning things and then He comes back. He won't use His tongue because He's a silly human, but He still cleans the birth-slime off of His babies.

I already know He can't mark His children because He can't mark us very well, either, but it's okay, He has troopmates to help Him and make good marks on His babies for him. Alpha marks them as His new flocklings and is very happy because Half Of Me is finally, FINALLY mostly happy. It was very good to let Him adopt these orphans. The precious things that He lost and grieved so much for were His children, so now He has children again to be precious to Him and soothe His pain.

We take care of the new babies, and now they are tired and so are we. They find their mama and curl into Him, He is very soft for them to rest against. I lie down with my other half; I am very good for Him to rest against. Our whole troop is safe and together, and finally, finally, finally, our human that we love is happy.