Chapter 173: We’ll Be Fine, We Have to Be

[JER]

"I don't even know what I'll tell her when she wakes up, or even if she ever wakes up. How do I tell the woman I love that I failed her a second time? How do I tell her that it will be okay even if we don't have pups, when her womb was ripped from her?

"Where do I even start, Elodie?" Jer asked, his head in his arms as he tried to think. But would it give him any relief?

The war had just begun and it was alone so long that life would probably lose meaning in the process. If Jer started giving up at this point then he would have nothing to fight for when the war ended, that is if he ever made it to the end.

"We shouldn't lose hope. They came and ambushed us, but then they retreated, as if to tell us to prepare our warriors. Now that we know they will be coming, we will be prepared, mentally and physically.