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The first contraction was a knife through her belly, the second brought her to the floor.
‘N-Nu-Ner-a…’ Amenii’s voice quivered, ‘N-Nera! Help!’

From the kitchen a pan impacted the floor with a gong, and a second later Nera was around the corner. ‘Oh, God.’ Her eyes wide.

I must be a terrible sight, Amenii had time to muse, before the next set of contractions struck. Fire seared her belly, rippling up from her thighs and spreading over her taut belly. She didn’t remember screaming, but she must have, as the next thing she could recall Nera was over her phone in hand.

‘I said Now!’ She was screaming into the receiver. ‘Not in five minutes! Now!’

Then she was weightless, large padded hands engulfed her, and she was flying. The world was becoming a blur of sounds and color, it was difficult to distinguish one object from the other. Nera was saying something, but the words were lost to her.

Blood thundered in her ears drowning out even her own screams, it was all she could do, she screamed for Nera to help her, she screamed she needed an ambulance, a hospital, a paramedic, and then she just screamed. And screamed, and screamed.

She was in a car, how or when she had gotten there she couldn’t recall. Someone was leaning over her, head lolling she tried to focus on the face, but it kept swimming before here.

‘N-Nera?...’ She tried to speak, her voice sounded paper think. ‘Nera, is – that you?’

A warm hand touched her face, cupping her cheek, and Amenii let herself roll into it. It was getting hard to… to… So, hard… And she felt so tired.

‘Just let me...sleep.’ She muttered. That is what she needed, just a few minutes. Then the fires were back, redoubling, tripling their efforts to burn their way out of her, and sleep evaporated. As if to make of for its previous lag, time shifted.

Everything was moving so fast, a blur of motion, A man? Did she know him? – Or was it Nera?

She couldn’t smell anything, save for the coppery tang that set her mouth on fire. Lights blurred overhead, flashing by as mammals clad in white and blue danced overhead.

‘Oh God…’ Their eyes, wide and white, terrible to behold, their faces hidden behind masks.

Her world shrank to become a blinding light, the faces were shouting at her, the words were confusing though. ‘I -I don’t under-un- derstand!’

The fires would not relent, nor would the faces stop screaming at her, Amenii closed her eyes, just as her world broke. The fires that had been burning in her vanished, they were nothing compared to the pain that swept through her in a wash of blinding agony and the world went white.

Sound fade, sensation was lost, and she was floating in a sea of white. Bliss, tranquil, quiet…

A sound touched her ears, so faint she had to strain to hear it, but when she did it began to grow, a sharp, high pitched ringing. And with a jolt she was back, her body convulsed with pain, she felt so weak, and there was the cold.

But the world hand stopped its gyrating, sound was slowly returning as well. From her side one of the masked men returned, a cat, smiling at her as it pressed a small bundle into her arms.

Wrapped in white linen, Amenii’s shaking hand lifted the bundle to her chest, inside a small fur covered face peered back at her.

C.S. Notes: There was just something about the first one that I just did not like, it didnt capture the moment as well as I had wanted, so I sat down and re-drew this piece. Much better, the emotional state I wished to convey is here.

This is a sequel to: Look At You and before that: Growing Pains and Before that: Oddly Flirtatious

Description
The first contraction was a knife through her belly, the second brought her to the floor.
‘N-Nu-Ner-a…’ Amenii’s voice quivered, ‘N-Nera! Help!’

From the kitchen a pan impacted the floor with a gong, and a second later Nera was around the corner. ‘Oh, God.’ Her eyes wide.

I must be a terrible sight, Amenii had time to muse, before the next set of contractions struck. Fire seared her belly, rippling up from her thighs and spreading over her taut belly. She didn’t remember screaming, but she must have, as the next thing she could recall Nera was over her phone in hand.

‘I said Now!’ She was screaming into the receiver. ‘Not in five minutes! Now!’

Then she was weightless, large padded hands engulfed her, and she was flying. The world was becoming a blur of sounds and color, it was difficult to distinguish one object from the other. Nera was saying something, but the words were lost to her.

Blood thundered in her ears drowning out even her own screams, it was all she could do, she screamed for Nera to help her, she screamed she needed an ambulance, a hospital, a paramedic, and then she just screamed. And screamed, and screamed.

She was in a car, how or when she had gotten there she couldn’t recall. Someone was leaning over her, head lolling she tried to focus on the face, but it kept swimming before here.

‘N-Nera?...’ She tried to speak, her voice sounded paper think. ‘Nera, is – that you?’

A warm hand touched her face, cupping her cheek, and Amenii let herself roll into it. It was getting hard to… to… So, hard… And she felt so tired.

‘Just let me...sleep.’ She muttered. That is what she needed, just a few minutes. Then the fires were back, redoubling, tripling their efforts to burn their way out of her, and sleep evaporated. As if to make of for its previous lag, time shifted.

Everything was moving so fast, a blur of motion, A man? Did she know him? – Or was it Nera?

She couldn’t smell anything, save for the coppery tang that set her mouth on fire. Lights blurred overhead, flashing by as mammals clad in white and blue danced overhead.

‘Oh God…’ Their eyes, wide and white, terrible to behold, their faces hidden behind masks.

Her world shrank to become a blinding light, the faces were shouting at her, the words were confusing though. ‘I -I don’t under-un- derstand!’

The fires would not relent, nor would the faces stop screaming at her, Amenii closed her eyes, just as her world broke. The fires that had been burning in her vanished, they were nothing compared to the pain that swept through her in a wash of blinding agony and the world went white.

Sound fade, sensation was lost, and she was floating in a sea of white. Bliss, tranquil, quiet…

A sound touched her ears, so faint she had to strain to hear it, but when she did it began to grow, a sharp, high pitched ringing. And with a jolt she was back, her body convulsed with pain, she felt so weak, and there was the cold.

But the world hand stopped its gyrating, sound was slowly returning as well. From her side one of the masked men returned, a cat, smiling at her as it pressed a small bundle into her arms.

Wrapped in white linen, Amenii’s shaking hand lifted the bundle to her chest, inside a small fur covered face peered back at her.

C.S. Notes: There was just something about the first one that I just did not like, it didnt capture the moment as well as I had wanted, so I sat down and re-drew this piece. Much better, the emotional state I wished to convey is here.

This is a sequel to: Look At You and before that: Growing Pains and Before that: Oddly Flirtatious