Had she been thinking clearly, Edie would likely have wondered exactly why Nadya was answering the door to Frost's home. Or rather, Edie would gloat that Frost had finally won the woman over and persuaded her to join their pack. Edie might have even congratulated her on following her heart. But Edie was not thinking clearly, and with that Edie simply allowed the woman to guide her to the couch inside the living room. The swarms of memories that she had within these four walls threatened to overwhelm her, and yet regardless she found herself focused on the twins who were staring intently at her. They were so much bigger than the time she had briefly come across them at the burlesque, and yet Nadya's assurance that children do, in fact, grow, was barely met with a nod. Of course children grew. There was a child growing within her now. A child that scared the living hell out of her.

It had been no secret that Edie did not like children. Growing up in Yorkshire, she had often been whisked away by Beck by the time she was a teenager, and thus spent no time with the children of the pack like the other girls her age. She held little interest in helping feed them or change them or guide them. The most she had done was stand by as their parents coaxed them through the firsts of their shifts. And in Africa with Kato's family, Edie... well, Edie tolerated the children. She never outright turned them away when they'd come to tug on her sleeve. But not once had she ever initiated the contact with them. And that was fine with her. She foresaw herself returning to Sacrosanct to be Frost's Beta and to live happily with Kato... no children in sight for her future. And then... and then she had gotten pregnant.

She had denied it so fiercely at first. It was only when she began to show and the shifts to her fox form began to hurt her body that she voiced it to Kato. And while she knew he'd be more pleased with it than she was, she hadn't expected the joy that erupted immediately from the man. And the joy had been contagious. While she shared her anxieties with him, he patiently reassured her with how they would raise their family. And after awhile, Edie believed that maybe she could be a mother. Maybe she could nurture this child and raise them with some kind of values and morals. Maybe... and it was a big maybe... she wouldn't completely fuck this up. Hell, she even found herself excited by the idea. To come home and raise her child in a pack home with her mate by her side. It was a good idea. Or at least it was until Hunters came up and made sure that that idea would never happen.

It was this she was considering while she told her story to Nadya, and while she spoke her broken words, her eyes had been trained on Nadya's girl. She looked so much like her mother, and briefly Edie wondered if her own child would look like her at all. She knew she'd likely take Kato's coloring, but... would she resemble Edie? It was only when Nadya spoke that Edie glanced up. "Yeah," She said very softly, her words sounding shaky and defeated. "I'm pregnant. Eighteen weeks." She glanced down once again at her stomach. She was just barely beginning to show on her slim frame, but it had been enough for the Hunters to notice immediately.

Edie didn't look up as Nadya attempted to reassure her that Kato was fine. In truth, Edie's own emotions flickered back and forth on it. How desperately she wanted to believe that he was fine and just taking the long way home. And yet, how hard it was to foresee Kato escaping so many hunters. But she would know if he was dead. She would have felt it somehow, right? "I hope so," was all Edie offered in response. Her gaze flicked up slightly as Nadya dismissed her children, and the tiniest quirk of a smile at the girl's insistence that she stay. She was a fiery little thing, and Edie could see Nadya in her as clear as day. The boy was more reserved, less likely to argue. She might like those children, she decided. No, she would have to. They were pack mates, as long as Frost allowed her to come back. And if he allowed her to come back in her same station, it would be partially her responsibility to see over the children. But despite that... the fiery girl and the quiet boy, she found herself immediately fond of them.

"She's like you," Edie said once the children were out of earshot. "Stubborn. A temper. Or like me." She let out a small laugh, though the laugh was dry rather than entirely genuine. Edie simply nodded as Nadya excused herself, and the fennec fox simply stared at her hands and at the gold wedding band that sat upon her ring finger. Oh Kato. The hurt swelled in her chest and she thought positively that she would break in half from it, but thankfully Nadya appeared once again and trust a wet cloth into her hands. For a moment, Edie simply stared at it before she began to wipe the blood off herself. For a moment, she didn't understand Nadya's words. Oh, her healing ability. She'd used it on her before. Edie held her hand out to her, hardly seeing the need to fight the healing that she could offer.

"I don't know if..." She motioned down to her stomach gently, though she refused to look at it herself for the time being. If something had happened to... it... Edie was sure she wouldn't be able to handle it. "Kato pushed me aside. An arrow. I fell." She said simply. The baby had to be fine. She would have known otherwise, right? Her own healing affinity couldn't reach the baby, not as long as it was a part of her, and yet she simply had to hope that it was alright. "Nadya?" She said very quietly after several moments of silence. "Kato's dead, isn't he?"