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Two more months went by like clockwork. Nothing else happened in that time other than the friends doing their chores.

Chamberlain’s stomach was huge by now. He was very uncomfortable with the weight he felt inside him, but he was still happy to feel his child move. And with all the preparations that had been made for the baby’s arrival, Sil was feeling ready to meet his little one.

Wyneth told Sil things that he needed to be prepared for and things she would need to do to ensure a safe delivery and when the baby was ready to come. If he prematurely tried to deliver his child before it was ready, it could have some complications for him or his baby.

Sil was a little uncomfortable with what Wyneth said she would have to do to ensure the baby was ready, but because she was his friend, he trusted her.

Byron knew he wouldn’t want to be around through the labor, but he would welcome the baby with open arms when it was born.

Sil didn’t do any chores now as it was so hard for him to bend over or get up if he sat down and needed to get up again. Wyneth said he could get up and walk around a bit during the day, but it was better now at this time to be off his feet a lot more. But when he did need to get up, he often had to pull on a vine that had been secured above his sleeping area. His belly made it nearly impossible to get up like he used to.

There was a spot for the baby right next to Sil’s spot, though there was a spare just in case.

He was at his most restless now too. He was mostly on bed rest in the last days. It was often hard to breathe and hard to find a good sleeping position. And the practice contractions were quite a bit stronger as well. Because of these, Wyneth didn’t want Sil doing anymore chores. The chances of labor any day now were too strong. He needed a lot of rest.

Sil hated being confined to his bed like this. He liked to be up and active. But the weight in his belly just prevented it, but he would sit up against the wall in the cave and watch what was going on. He hoped there wouldn’t be any trouble while he was stuck in bed during this time. The main time he was only allowed up was relieving himself.

Chamberlain had made it to the 38 week mark. Everything in his body, and mind, was ready for the big event, now it just needed to happen.

One night, a big heavy storm blew in. Wyneth, Byron, and Sil all moved further back into the cave before bed to ensure they wouldn’t get wet from the rain. They all tried to get a good night’s sleep.

Halfway through the night, Chamberlain was awakened by a sharp, stabbing pain in his side and back. Then a tightening in his stomach happened too.

He had felt nauseated earlier in the day and just uncomfortable, but hadn’t said anything. He had mistook it more for some pregnancy discomfort that he had felt for awhile.

“Oh! Owwww!” Sil said lowly, but the pain got stronger. Then he couldn’t help that he screamed.

His scream awoke his friends. “What? What is it?” Byron asked.

Sil was doing the breathing he had been taught. It was so hard to breathe through this intense pain, but he did it. Then he released a big sigh when it ended.

“Big, sharp pain that just happened. Felt more painful than normal pains.” Sil said.

“If that’s how you describe it, Chamberlain, then I don’t think that was a practice one. It might have been a real labor pain.” Wyneth said.

More thunder and lightning flared outside.

“Are they all going to feel like that or get worse?” Sil asked.

“They’ll get stronger the more closer the birth gets.” She replied.

Throughout the night, Chamberlain experienced what she said. It was real hard to get any sleep with Sil nearly panicking all the time and screaming. Wyneth kept on trying to encourage him to breathe. His hands were tightly gripping his blanket or his belly.

“Please, make it stop!” He screamed.

Wyneth had heard those words over a million times from every mother to be.

Chamberlain was so stressed out from the pain that he began to get hot and began sweating. Byron wanted to be out of here, but because of the storm outside, he wasn’t going anywhere.

Byron got a bucket of water and made sure that Sil had access to it and the cloth to wipe his face down to try to stay cool.
…………….

The urRu, Chanter, was also now experiencing the same horrendous pains as his counterpart. Though he didn’t know what it was about.
……………..

“It will be over soon, Sil. You’ve waited all this time, just wait a little longer.” Wyneth said.

“I want it out! Make the pain stop!” He screamed.

“Isn’t there anything you can give him?” Byron asked. He was nearly on the verge of panic too.

“I think I have some herbs that might help.” Wyneth said. She got up and went over to her batch of herbs to see what she used for labored mothers. She really wanted Sil to try the natural method of birth before she resorted to open surgery.

She found what she needed and they were the last batch of herbs. She mixed them in with water.

Byron was doing what he could for Sil until she finished the potion to help relieve his pain a bit more.

When it was finished, Wyneth brought over a bowl and poured some of the herb stew into the bowl.

Sil had just finished another contraction. He was breathing hard as Wyneth now brought it over to him.

“This will help take the edge off some of the pain, Chamberlain. But you will still feel some of the pains.” She said. “It will help you relax more.”

Sil gladly took the bowl and drank the contents. It tasted more like a certain stew that she normally made for dinner, but had a different taste too. He gave her back the bowl and he could feel the effects of it within a short time.

He laid in his bedding, quite drowsy, but coherent enough. It stopped his screaming for now. But he would still whimper when he felt a contraction.

“Thanks for calming him down.” Byron said.

“It has those effects, but when the birth is at the closest, I need to reverse the effects. He needs to have the strength to push the baby out.” Wyneth said.

“How do you know when its ready?”

“When I can feel the head. I should check him again anyway.” Wyneth said.

Byron couldn’t imagine having to go through this pain and all the checks on the baby. It felt way too invasive, but Sil had given her his permission to do what she needed to do.

After checking him, Wyneth shook her head. “No, still not ready yet. Labor can take a long time, Byron. And with this being his first time, first time labors often take the longest.”

Byron hated seeing his friend like this, but it would be worth it in the end to see the baby Skeksis that had been inside his friend for so long.
………………

The labor went on all night and most of the morning hours, and by the time the contractions were two minutes apart, Wyneth got the reverse herbs for Sil to take. He didn’t want to feel the pain anymore. It was when his water broke that the contractions began to really pick up after.

The storm had stopped mid morning.

Chamberlain felt like he might lose his voice because he had done so much screaming since Wyneth had given him the reverse herbs not long ago. But now, he was starting to get a burning feeling down in his lower body.

Wyneth checked him again when he said that, and she said, “Chamberlain, the baby’s ready to come out, so when the next pain comes on, you should start pushing. The pushing will ease the discomfort more during the pain going on. And it makes the baby move.”

This was all new and scary sounding to him. But the burning feeling that was building up in his lower body was feeling like something instinctual, that it had to come out.

When the next contraction came on, Wyneth gave him the guidance to bear down with all the strength he had in him to start pushing the baby out.

As much as Byron wanted to be away, Wyneth also insisted that Byron stay here. She would need his help in case there was more than one baby born. He kept his distance from looking at anything personal, but he did offer encouraging words to his friend to keep him going. Wyneth had to be looking out for the baby.

After the first push, Sil leaned back again, catching his breath. Why did this have to be so complicated? But his relief time was short when pain came on again one minute later.

It took over five attempts at pushing to finally hear the head was finally emerging. Wyneth reached her hands over and to also try to help him now to gently guide the baby out. The shoulders were the hardest to push out. And with one final hard push from Sil, Wyneth finally guided the rest of the baby’s body out of his body.

Chamberlain let out a big yelp when the baby was finally pulled free. To him, there was the big feeling of the burning, and then something that seemed big and slimy was just pulled out of him and the pain just vanished. He fell back into his pillow.

Wyneth hurriedly tried to clean the baby up. She also cut the umbilical cord. When most of the mucus had cleared the airway, the little Skeksis began to cry.

“Its going to be just fine, Chamberlain.” Wyneth said.

Sil smiled. He was exhausted. His entire middle hurt.

“Here, Byron, you take him while I get the last part of the delivery taken care of.” Wyneth said.

“Where… are you… taking him?” Sil asked.

“Just over here.” Byron said.

Then, just as Wyneth was thinking it was all over, Sil screamed out again. He felt the burning returning.

“Delivering the afterbirth shouldn’t be that painful, Sil.” Wyneth said. “Unless, it’s possible, there’s another baby coming.”

“Not again. Hurt too much to push again.” Sil whined.

“Chamberlain, you need to get the second one out too.” Wyneth said. “Catch your breath for a few seconds and then we need to do this again.”

Sil breathed through a couple contractions and somewhat caught a second wind to bear down again the next few times it was needed before a second little Skeksis came into Wyneth’s arms too.

Wyneth cleaned up the twin while Chamberlain now felt paralyzed in his bedding, with the bedding now ruined from the birth, but it didn’t matter. It could be cleaned up or replaced later.

Chamberlain was beyond exhausted. He hoped he wouldn’t have to push out anymore.

Byron brought the firstborn over to Sil to hold for the first time, now that the worst was over.

Despite how tired he was, Chamberlain welcomed the baby into his arms. When he had it against his body, he looked down at the little creature in his arms, hard to believe it had been inside his body all this time.

To look at it, it had no hair, no teeth, and no spikes on its back. But it did seem to have his face, and the second pair of arms on his back seemed to be functional, like his had been many trines ago, but time had made them go dormant.

“Can’t believe this was inside me.” Sil said.

“It always does seem hard to believe, but it takes a lot of getting used to when the baby or babies finally comes and they are in your arms for the first time. For most mothers, just the greatest new feelings come over them. Once they meet their children, they never want to let them go.” Wyneth said. “And there are the rare ones that don’t feel connections at all.”

She had just finished with the twin and was now handing him to Sil as well.

Now that they were in his arms, Chamberlain was getting the instinct to not want to let go of these two little miracles that he and his lover, La, had evidently created together. As he looked at the second one, it did seem to have a slightly lighter gray color than its sibling, obviously indicating La’s body color, which was much lighter than his. It would make the twins easier to tell apart.

Wyneth delivered the afterbirth finally and disposed of it. “You should be done with having children now. You might still feel some discomfort, but it’s all normal. You just went through an amazing and hard job of bringing new life into the world, Sil. You’ll feel better in the coming days.”

“Thanks, Wyneth, but now what do I do?”

“Test to see if there’s a grasping motion. Put a finger in one of their hands to see if they grab on.” She said.

Sil did just that, and indeed, they did have a grasping reflex. It melted Sil’s heart.

To the two Gelflings, there couldn’t have been a more precious moment for their friend. He had been through so much while he had been with them.

Chamberlain began making moaning sounds to them, which did seem to comfort them. They did some moans back. Then the mouthing began.

“Awe! The little ones seem to be hungry.” Byron said.

Sil watched them mouthing. “But what do I feed them? They have no teeth.”

“I think I know, Sil. Lift up the tunic some more.” Wyneth said.

“I’m going to leave you to that.” Byron said. “I need to get to the morning chores.” He felt this was more private for mothers.

Sil pulled up his shirt some more. His breasts were tight and swollen with milk.

“That is their food source for awhile, until they get teeth.” Wyneth said.

A little hesitantly, Chamberlain put his babies down to his stomach and they both latched onto him. It was a little painful at first with the nursing, but it soon lessoned up. The twins were bringing relief to that area of tight skin.

Wyneth had a feeling Sil wasn’t going to eat much today. She would try giving him some soup in the evening.

After all the excitement, it was time to settle down and get some much needed rest.

Sil was glad it was all over. He now laid on his side with his babies beside him. He had been thinking of names intensely over the last few months. But he would wait awhile to officially name them. His mind was so tired at the moment he could hardly think anymore.

With full bellies, the twins had drifted to sleep, and to watch them after all he had been through from his sleep getting interrupted the night before, Sil was more than tired and he drifted off too.

Wyneth decided she too would take a nap. Byron might too when he returned. It had been a long, hard night of no sleep and exciting new moments.

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Two more months went by like clockwork. Nothing else happened in that time other than the friends doing their chores.

Chamberlain’s stomach was huge by now. He was very uncomfortable with the weight he felt inside him, but he was still happy to feel his child move. And with all the preparations that had been made for the baby’s arrival, Sil was feeling ready to meet his little one.

Wyneth told Sil things that he needed to be prepared for and things she would need to do to ensure a safe delivery and when the baby was ready to come. If he prematurely tried to deliver his child before it was ready, it could have some complications for him or his baby.

Sil was a little uncomfortable with what Wyneth said she would have to do to ensure the baby was ready, but because she was his friend, he trusted her.

Byron knew he wouldn’t want to be around through the labor, but he would welcome the baby with open arms when it was born.

Sil didn’t do any chores now as it was so hard for him to bend over or get up if he sat down and needed to get up again. Wyneth said he could get up and walk around a bit during the day, but it was better now at this time to be off his feet a lot more. But when he did need to get up, he often had to pull on a vine that had been secured above his sleeping area. His belly made it nearly impossible to get up like he used to.

There was a spot for the baby right next to Sil’s spot, though there was a spare just in case.

He was at his most restless now too. He was mostly on bed rest in the last days. It was often hard to breathe and hard to find a good sleeping position. And the practice contractions were quite a bit stronger as well. Because of these, Wyneth didn’t want Sil doing anymore chores. The chances of labor any day now were too strong. He needed a lot of rest.

Sil hated being confined to his bed like this. He liked to be up and active. But the weight in his belly just prevented it, but he would sit up against the wall in the cave and watch what was going on. He hoped there wouldn’t be any trouble while he was stuck in bed during this time. The main time he was only allowed up was relieving himself.

Chamberlain had made it to the 38 week mark. Everything in his body, and mind, was ready for the big event, now it just needed to happen.

One night, a big heavy storm blew in. Wyneth, Byron, and Sil all moved further back into the cave before bed to ensure they wouldn’t get wet from the rain. They all tried to get a good night’s sleep.

Halfway through the night, Chamberlain was awakened by a sharp, stabbing pain in his side and back. Then a tightening in his stomach happened too.

He had felt nauseated earlier in the day and just uncomfortable, but hadn’t said anything. He had mistook it more for some pregnancy discomfort that he had felt for awhile.

“Oh! Owwww!” Sil said lowly, but the pain got stronger. Then he couldn’t help that he screamed.

His scream awoke his friends. “What? What is it?” Byron asked.

Sil was doing the breathing he had been taught. It was so hard to breathe through this intense pain, but he did it. Then he released a big sigh when it ended.

“Big, sharp pain that just happened. Felt more painful than normal pains.” Sil said.

“If that’s how you describe it, Chamberlain, then I don’t think that was a practice one. It might have been a real labor pain.” Wyneth said.

More thunder and lightning flared outside.

“Are they all going to feel like that or get worse?” Sil asked.

“They’ll get stronger the more closer the birth gets.” She replied.

Throughout the night, Chamberlain experienced what she said. It was real hard to get any sleep with Sil nearly panicking all the time and screaming. Wyneth kept on trying to encourage him to breathe. His hands were tightly gripping his blanket or his belly.

“Please, make it stop!” He screamed.

Wyneth had heard those words over a million times from every mother to be.

Chamberlain was so stressed out from the pain that he began to get hot and began sweating. Byron wanted to be out of here, but because of the storm outside, he wasn’t going anywhere.

Byron got a bucket of water and made sure that Sil had access to it and the cloth to wipe his face down to try to stay cool.
…………….

The urRu, Chanter, was also now experiencing the same horrendous pains as his counterpart. Though he didn’t know what it was about.
……………..

“It will be over soon, Sil. You’ve waited all this time, just wait a little longer.” Wyneth said.

“I want it out! Make the pain stop!” He screamed.

“Isn’t there anything you can give him?” Byron asked. He was nearly on the verge of panic too.

“I think I have some herbs that might help.” Wyneth said. She got up and went over to her batch of herbs to see what she used for labored mothers. She really wanted Sil to try the natural method of birth before she resorted to open surgery.

She found what she needed and they were the last batch of herbs. She mixed them in with water.

Byron was doing what he could for Sil until she finished the potion to help relieve his pain a bit more.

When it was finished, Wyneth brought over a bowl and poured some of the herb stew into the bowl.

Sil had just finished another contraction. He was breathing hard as Wyneth now brought it over to him.

“This will help take the edge off some of the pain, Chamberlain. But you will still feel some of the pains.” She said. “It will help you relax more.”

Sil gladly took the bowl and drank the contents. It tasted more like a certain stew that she normally made for dinner, but had a different taste too. He gave her back the bowl and he could feel the effects of it within a short time.

He laid in his bedding, quite drowsy, but coherent enough. It stopped his screaming for now. But he would still whimper when he felt a contraction.

“Thanks for calming him down.” Byron said.

“It has those effects, but when the birth is at the closest, I need to reverse the effects. He needs to have the strength to push the baby out.” Wyneth said.

“How do you know when its ready?”

“When I can feel the head. I should check him again anyway.” Wyneth said.

Byron couldn’t imagine having to go through this pain and all the checks on the baby. It felt way too invasive, but Sil had given her his permission to do what she needed to do.

After checking him, Wyneth shook her head. “No, still not ready yet. Labor can take a long time, Byron. And with this being his first time, first time labors often take the longest.”

Byron hated seeing his friend like this, but it would be worth it in the end to see the baby Skeksis that had been inside his friend for so long.
………………

The labor went on all night and most of the morning hours, and by the time the contractions were two minutes apart, Wyneth got the reverse herbs for Sil to take. He didn’t want to feel the pain anymore. It was when his water broke that the contractions began to really pick up after.

The storm had stopped mid morning.

Chamberlain felt like he might lose his voice because he had done so much screaming since Wyneth had given him the reverse herbs not long ago. But now, he was starting to get a burning feeling down in his lower body.

Wyneth checked him again when he said that, and she said, “Chamberlain, the baby’s ready to come out, so when the next pain comes on, you should start pushing. The pushing will ease the discomfort more during the pain going on. And it makes the baby move.”

This was all new and scary sounding to him. But the burning feeling that was building up in his lower body was feeling like something instinctual, that it had to come out.

When the next contraction came on, Wyneth gave him the guidance to bear down with all the strength he had in him to start pushing the baby out.

As much as Byron wanted to be away, Wyneth also insisted that Byron stay here. She would need his help in case there was more than one baby born. He kept his distance from looking at anything personal, but he did offer encouraging words to his friend to keep him going. Wyneth had to be looking out for the baby.

After the first push, Sil leaned back again, catching his breath. Why did this have to be so complicated? But his relief time was short when pain came on again one minute later.

It took over five attempts at pushing to finally hear the head was finally emerging. Wyneth reached her hands over and to also try to help him now to gently guide the baby out. The shoulders were the hardest to push out. And with one final hard push from Sil, Wyneth finally guided the rest of the baby’s body out of his body.

Chamberlain let out a big yelp when the baby was finally pulled free. To him, there was the big feeling of the burning, and then something that seemed big and slimy was just pulled out of him and the pain just vanished. He fell back into his pillow.

Wyneth hurriedly tried to clean the baby up. She also cut the umbilical cord. When most of the mucus had cleared the airway, the little Skeksis began to cry.

“Its going to be just fine, Chamberlain.” Wyneth said.

Sil smiled. He was exhausted. His entire middle hurt.

“Here, Byron, you take him while I get the last part of the delivery taken care of.” Wyneth said.

“Where… are you… taking him?” Sil asked.

“Just over here.” Byron said.

Then, just as Wyneth was thinking it was all over, Sil screamed out again. He felt the burning returning.

“Delivering the afterbirth shouldn’t be that painful, Sil.” Wyneth said. “Unless, it’s possible, there’s another baby coming.”

“Not again. Hurt too much to push again.” Sil whined.

“Chamberlain, you need to get the second one out too.” Wyneth said. “Catch your breath for a few seconds and then we need to do this again.”

Sil breathed through a couple contractions and somewhat caught a second wind to bear down again the next few times it was needed before a second little Skeksis came into Wyneth’s arms too.

Wyneth cleaned up the twin while Chamberlain now felt paralyzed in his bedding, with the bedding now ruined from the birth, but it didn’t matter. It could be cleaned up or replaced later.

Chamberlain was beyond exhausted. He hoped he wouldn’t have to push out anymore.

Byron brought the firstborn over to Sil to hold for the first time, now that the worst was over.

Despite how tired he was, Chamberlain welcomed the baby into his arms. When he had it against his body, he looked down at the little creature in his arms, hard to believe it had been inside his body all this time.

To look at it, it had no hair, no teeth, and no spikes on its back. But it did seem to have his face, and the second pair of arms on his back seemed to be functional, like his had been many trines ago, but time had made them go dormant.

“Can’t believe this was inside me.” Sil said.

“It always does seem hard to believe, but it takes a lot of getting used to when the baby or babies finally comes and they are in your arms for the first time. For most mothers, just the greatest new feelings come over them. Once they meet their children, they never want to let them go.” Wyneth said. “And there are the rare ones that don’t feel connections at all.”

She had just finished with the twin and was now handing him to Sil as well.

Now that they were in his arms, Chamberlain was getting the instinct to not want to let go of these two little miracles that he and his lover, La, had evidently created together. As he looked at the second one, it did seem to have a slightly lighter gray color than its sibling, obviously indicating La’s body color, which was much lighter than his. It would make the twins easier to tell apart.

Wyneth delivered the afterbirth finally and disposed of it. “You should be done with having children now. You might still feel some discomfort, but it’s all normal. You just went through an amazing and hard job of bringing new life into the world, Sil. You’ll feel better in the coming days.”

“Thanks, Wyneth, but now what do I do?”

“Test to see if there’s a grasping motion. Put a finger in one of their hands to see if they grab on.” She said.

Sil did just that, and indeed, they did have a grasping reflex. It melted Sil’s heart.

To the two Gelflings, there couldn’t have been a more precious moment for their friend. He had been through so much while he had been with them.

Chamberlain began making moaning sounds to them, which did seem to comfort them. They did some moans back. Then the mouthing began.

“Awe! The little ones seem to be hungry.” Byron said.

Sil watched them mouthing. “But what do I feed them? They have no teeth.”

“I think I know, Sil. Lift up the tunic some more.” Wyneth said.

“I’m going to leave you to that.” Byron said. “I need to get to the morning chores.” He felt this was more private for mothers.

Sil pulled up his shirt some more. His breasts were tight and swollen with milk.

“That is their food source for awhile, until they get teeth.” Wyneth said.

A little hesitantly, Chamberlain put his babies down to his stomach and they both latched onto him. It was a little painful at first with the nursing, but it soon lessoned up. The twins were bringing relief to that area of tight skin.

Wyneth had a feeling Sil wasn’t going to eat much today. She would try giving him some soup in the evening.

After all the excitement, it was time to settle down and get some much needed rest.

Sil was glad it was all over. He now laid on his side with his babies beside him. He had been thinking of names intensely over the last few months. But he would wait awhile to officially name them. His mind was so tired at the moment he could hardly think anymore.

With full bellies, the twins had drifted to sleep, and to watch them after all he had been through from his sleep getting interrupted the night before, Sil was more than tired and he drifted off too.

Wyneth decided she too would take a nap. Byron might too when he returned. It had been a long, hard night of no sleep and exciting new moments.