Vieraslayer
This has equal reviews to Praise the Mother right now, and almost four times the length. I'm a sad bunny. Is there any interest left? I know it's long, but the chapters are pretty short. I'm having fun writing this, but I love getting nice comments. However, I block all flamers. Unless the review isn't signed, then I just delete the flame review itself.
The Diary of Alvyne Vierahealer
Jote has never looked so bad. Marl says I should stay with her, try to keep her calm. It's January, and the new kit isn't due until March. If she goes into labour now, her kit would probably survive, but I'm not ready to help her! Zara says I won't be ready to safely help for a while now.
And Jote feels terrible too. I want to check on other Viera, but I would never forgive myself if something happened to Jote that I could've prevented. Myko is shocked that I will possibly have to put my hands up a Viera's snatch one of these days. I can't say being a midwife is something I'm looking forward to, but I had a choice and I want to be a healer and I'm sticking with it. I am personally surprised Myko even knows what she's talking about. Six-year-olds shouldn't know about these kinds of things.
What was Jote thinking, telling Myko about The Facts of Life at her age? Myko practically still a baby herself, by Viera standards. By Reena standards too. If she were a Reena, she'd still be nursing from Viera. We don't totally stop that until the pups are eight. They can eat solids, but we wanted our pups to have as much a taste for Viera as possible. I'm in my forties and I'm still a pup since Reena live so long, as I've explained before. Viera supposedly wean their kits at two or three. We do nurse our pups, so don't go saying Reena are bad mothers, 'cause we aren't. Weren't, I should say.
Oh! I heard from Janzyn that the Viera killings in the city are definitely Reena work! I was losing hope that it was, but the news says that a big Reena attacked a Viera named Krjn and nearly killed her. They don't know who the Reena was, or even if it was a male or a female, but I'm not the last of my kind after all. They said it was a large black-and-white Reena, but it transformed and escaped before anybody could do anything to try and catch it. Janzyn is worried the Reena will go after his favourite newscaster because she's a Viera. I dunno. She is famous enough to be guarded if Reena are a threat. Personally, I don't know whether to be a happy doggy or a sad one. Reena are killing Viera again, but they're still Reena. It's a hard decision.
I feel something bad is about to happen, and I fear that the other Reena is involved. I hope he or she is not responsible for the pain I am hearing from the Wood. She is crying, but only a Viera or Reena can hear it. It is what is hurting the Viera so much.
My heart aches. I wanted another Reena so badly and now he or she may be hurting and killing my Viera friends and the Wood Mother. Killing Viera hurts the Wood, and there are only about four thousand pureblood Viera in the whole world, less still in the Wood. The more Viera there are, the more it takes to really hurt the Wood, according to legend. Apparently, those legends are true. It's especially bad now that the Viera have been increasing in number in the past few years. The baby Viera like Vinka and Slya are especially vulnerable to attacks, and Reena would usually take Viera out when they were young. We get them while they're still nice and tender, not old enough to get all tough and stringy.
I will try and see what I can do, but I hope no more Viera have to be sacrificed to solve this problem. I know some more probably will die before the Reena is caught and tamed, but I hope not.
--Alvyne Vierahealer