“It’s just the idea of it, I suppose. It’s very strange. But you’re right. And it’s progressing very well. In fact, if you’ll permit me—” she addressed that to Harun, “—I’ll check again, you should be just about ready to start pushing. With felines it doesn’t usually take long after dilation gets going.”
Harun gave a grunt of pain, but then nodded assent, rolling onto his back to give the midwife better access. Kelwyn stayed at his head, still stroking his mane, as the midwife went about her business. He couldn’t see her terribly well over the bulge of Harun’s belly. In feline form it was merely rounded, the last time he’d taken human shape it had been absolutely ridiculous, but he’d been spending the last several weeks mostly as a lion. A single-birth pregnancy was nothing much on a lion
