Over the next month her belly begins to swell though not as large as your first encounter. You begin to fully understand your new power as well, when you eat plenty you can breed more pups. When you eat humanoids this effect is increased. You also suspect that you absorb the life force of a consumed sentient and reshape it through the act of mating. Though eating a being may end their mind and memories they live on, don’t they? You ponder this until the day the Matriarch goes into labour again. She is not alone this time.
In the garden she leans back on you for support and pushes your new offspring from her body. Her small baby belly quakes and clenches, and soon she are covered in sweat but after a short hour of labour she brings two healthy pups into the world. They squirm and cry out blindly, you collect them in a basket gently and bring them inside the house. The next few days you help nurse your mate back to full strength as she nurses your offspring.
Soon you feel your wanderlust kick back in, and one evening make a show of the fact that you are leaving (for now) to your mate. An intelligent woman she understands, and sees you off with her two new pups held to her chest in a sling. You look back at her house, bathed in twilight. “Thank you Sifr.” She calls to you. You wonder when and how she learned your name, then trot off into the woods of Ashenvale, planning on returning someday.
