Aphra wakes up to Ulls son crying. She looks behind her and sees Ull with his son in his arms. He slowly bounces the baby in his arms but It doesn't work and he cries louder. Aphra gets off the ground slowly and not to wake Ulls, daughter. She goes to Ull and carefully takes his son from him. She sits on a nearby rock and with her right hand, she unties her fur top. She holds the child her her chest and he latches onto her breast immediately. He starts sucking for milk and he got what he wanted.

Aphra looks at Ull and notices he is staring at her chest. She wraps her other arm around the baby and her chest is mostly hidden. Ull kneels in front of Aphra and his son. He watches his son happily eating. " you do have a mate since you have milk".

" no. He is dead" until said.

" where is the child?" he asked.

Aphra makes eye contact with Ull then looks away.

" she is walking free now". Ull places his hand on her thigh and unwraps the bandage. He sees that the wound is starting to heal. He wraps it back up and stays with her.

Once the baby is done feeding, Aphra holds him to her chest as he sleeps. Ull gets off the floor and walks out of the hut/cave.

Aphra continues to rock the child in her arms until the girl wakes up. She rubs her eyes and yawns. The child looks around the room and then looks at Aphra. " where is father?".

Aphra shrugs her shoulders,"He just left".

The girl gets up and tugs on her arm lightly. "come" said the child. Aphra levels the child in her arms and gets up. The child grabs her hand and leads her to a larger cave with men and women surrounding a bonfire. Aphra smells meat cooking and her stomach growled. Aphra spots Ull. He is sitting on top of a rock while eating some kind of meat she didn't recognize. She looked to her left and sees older women slowly walking to Ull. The women sit down next to him. Ull gets up and brings the older women a bowl.

He tips the bowl to her mouth and she starts to drink it. Aphra walked over to him while doing Udam. As she approaches she hears the older women say, "She's a pretty one".

Ull groans, " Mother hush".

Aphra rolls her eyes and sits on the floor by the rock. She leans her back against it and lays the child on her chest. Suddenly, she is hit on the head really hard. Aphra whips her head around and sees the old women with a stick in her hand. "Didn't your mother tell you it's rude to ignore someone?".

Aphra rolls her eyes again and turned around. Then the women hit Aphra on the head again. " Don't roll your eyes at me!". Aphra looked at Ull and he just shrugged his shoulders.

" now come here," said the old women while pointing to the spot next to her. Aphra sighed and got up slowly while trying to balance the child in her arms. When she sat down the women immediately grabs her necklace and looks at Aphra shell bracelet.

" why do you have wenja symbol?".

Aphra looks at the necklace Takkar made her. She put her hand on it and pulled. The necklace came off with a loud snap. Ull holds his hand out and she put it in his hand. She also hands him her shell bracelets. Ull notices a shell bracelet on her ankle and reaches for it. " no, was my mothers". He then leaves that bracelet alone and walks to the bonfire. He throws the shells into the flames. While he is by the fire he gets another bowl of food and brings it back. Ull hands Aphra the bowl. Once, she takes it he takes his child from her and sits back on the rock.

Aphra looks in the bowl and sees meat, carrots and some kind of herb. She looks at Ull and he looks back at her. " eat. You haven't in days". Aphra turns back to the food and brings the bowl to her mouth and eats. To her, it is surprisingly good. Way better then Wenja food. She sets the bowl on on the rock.

She feels something is into her side. She turns to her right and sees the women poking her. " you're too small. You need to be fed more". " Wenja are born this way," said Aphra. Aphra slowly moves away from her until she is at the edge of the rock.

Aphra ignores the women and looks at her thigh and sees her bandage is really dirty and bloody. She slowly unwrapped her thigh and drops the bandage. It's bleeding again pretty badly so she holds her hand to it. Ull hands his child to the older women and stands in front of Aphra. He takes her leg in his hand and pours hot liquid on it. Aphra was about to scream but she places her hand over her mouth to prevent that. Once done Ull wraps her leg up and slowly lowers her leg to the ground. Suddenly, there is a loud roar erupted from the valley outside. Aphra looks at Ull as him and a few men walk outside the cave with weapons in hand.

Aphra stands up and then looks at the women next to her and asks, "Whats going on?".

"It is the sabertooth. A nasty white sabertooth that has killed many Udam". Just as the cat roared from outside Ulls son wakes from his sleep and cries. Aphra takes him from the women and his cries calm down immediately. "Come, we need to keep the children safe". Aphra and the women take all the children deeper into the caves for protection. Aphra sets the boy down in a bundle of furs and dried grass. She looks around the dim lit cave and sees a few hiding spots for things to sneak up on them.

"I'll be right back!" She yelled as she runs out of the cave. "Wait, come back" yelled ulls daughter.

Aphra makes her way to the main cave. She looks around and finds bags all over so, she scavenges through all of them and finds what she needs. She quickly makes a few dozen traps and put them in a bag. She then put a the bag on her back and heads to the cave with all the children.

Once she is by the children again Aphra places the traps around the cave so if something sneaks up on them Aphra will know. Suddenly, children screams are heard from behind her. She whips her head around and sees the sabertooth. It's covered in blood and Aphra is sure it isn't it's own. The children and women move back slowly as Aphra moves forward. She is a few feet away from the tiger and just as she was about to move she is tackled by the sabertooth, knocking the air out of her.

She brought her make shift bone shard up and stabbed at the cats back. It embedded itself, making it leap back, howling in pain. She didn't give the sabertooth a moment's rest before she grabs a spear and tucked it under the cats big teeth and began pushing it back and out of the cave and through the tunnels. She then tackled the beast and they roll down a rocky hill. They landed in a big pile of snow, the beast rolls a few feet away from Aphra. She leapt up to see Ull and many Udam running towards her and the cat.

The beast lunged at her once more and she managed to grasp the end of the dagger, drawing it out of it's back. She grasped the ruff of the cat, landing on the beast's back, digging the blade into the cats neck. It gave a howl of pain as she drew it out the beast through her off it's back and it's landed on top of her

Aphra bringing up the spear in defense. The sabertooth lunged at her again and it impaled itself on the spear. Aphra struggles to keep hold of the spear She leans back, hoisting the impaled cat into the air. The sabertooth refuses to die, however. Its own body weight is causing it to slide down the spear toward her. Before the cat gave a dying roar he snapped his jaws one more time and collapsed on the spear and Aphra.

Aphra rolls the beast off of her and she looks to her side and sees Ull staring at her in shock. She gets up slowly but falls to the ground in exhaustion. Her vision is blurry but can still make out the figure that is coming to her. She sees the persons eyes and knows it's Ull. He picks her up and takes her back to the main cave where they were earlier.

The women and children come out of the tunnel to see Ull laying Aphra down on a pile of furs by the fire.

"Nita, bring your father bandages" said a women. Ull lifts Aphras head and holds a cup to her lips. "Drink". Aphra opens her mouth and drinks what's in the cup. He sets the cup down just as his daughter sets the bandages down by him. He dips a rag into some water and puts the rag on Aphras wound on her arm.

Once Ull is done cleaning her wounds he places his hand on her forehead. Aphra pushed his hand away and rolls over on the mat.

Suddenly, her eyes began to get heavy and everything began to fade away into darkness.

Ulls POV

As I watch her sleep I thought, how can she sleep after she almost got killed by a sabertooth. She looks very peaceful while sleeping. My daughter Nita, comes over to me with a bowl of meat. Nita sits down next to me and asks, "father, will she be okay? ". I thought for a moment and replied, "yes, she only has minor injury's". She nods her head and starts to eat her food. As she does so I pick a limestone rock and my dagger. I begin carving into it to. Hours later, I notice movement in the corner of my eye. When I look up and I meet Aphras beautiful eyes.

End POV

Ull Gets off the rock he was sitting on and walks over to Aphra. She looks at all the wounds she received from the sabertooth. Ull holds out his hand to her and she takes it. He slowly lifts her up and guides her his hut. Before Ull sits on the furs he takes his son in his arms and he pulls her down onto his lap. Her back is against his chest and Ulls son is in her arms sleeping soundly.

Aphra looks at the boy in her arms. "What's his name? " she asks. Ull leans over her shoulder to look at his son and replies, "he has no name".

"Why?" She asks.

"His mother died before giving him one".

Their is dead silence in the hut and only them breathing can be heard. Aphra spoke up after pondering for a while. "How about Rian? It means king". Ull thought for a moment, "Rian, I like it". Ull smiles at Rian when he opens his eyes and yawns. Rian looks up and Aphra and smiles. He giggles when Aphra Caressed his cheek with her thumb.

Suddenly, a figure stood in the door way of his hut. Aphra looks up and sees Nita. "Grandma wants to him him" she says as she points to her brother. "Okay, and Nita, his name is Rian". Nita walks over to Aphra and takes her brother in her arms. "Did you name him father?". "No, it is Aphra that named him". Nita smiles at Aphra and says,"I like it".

Once Nita left the hut Ull wraps his arms around Aphras waist and lays her down next to him so they are chest to chest. Aphra lays her head on his chest and feels relaxed, until he kissed her neck. Once, twice and a third time. He pulls away and looks at Aphra, who is red as a tomato. She looks away in shyness then back at Ull. She moves closer to him and warps an arm around his neck. She pulls him down and their lips touch.

Ull pulls her closer and wraps his arm around her waist.Ull pulls her on top of himself and they continue to kiss till she pulls away for air.

Ull looks at her chest as she unties her top but she freezes. "What's wrong? " he asked.

"I... I'm not ready yet".

Ull nods and puts his hands on her waist. Aphra leans her head on his shoulder and begins to fall asleep suddenly.

Once he noticed this he lays her down and covers her with the furs. He exits his hut and walks to where she killed the sabertooth. He collected the cat and through it over his shoulder and carries it to the main cave to be cleaned and skinned.