TWO WEEKS LATER--LAMMERMOOR MANOR
I wake up to Lightning's calm voice in my head.
[It's time.]
Time? Time to get up? Time for more training?
Lightning licks me. Okay, okay, I'm getting up.
[It's time.]
She repeats the word calmly.
[I know. I know I have to get up.]
She is completely calm. [Yes. You have to get up. You have to meet your cubs.]
Wait. Full stop. Cubs???
I'm awake in the blink of an eye.
[Cubs? The cubs are coming?]
It's too early. Isn't it? On the other hand, this is a magical virtual world, and speeding up nature isn't unheard of, because players get impatient. We are magical tigers, bonded to mages.
CUBS! The cubs are coming.
At least the den is set up here in Lammermoor Manor, where we stopped after our trip to the Mushroom Forest. Lightning was too uncomfortable to travel from there, so we decided to spend time in our other home for a change. The healers thought that the strain of the trip might have accelerated her pregnancy.
