Raschen couldn't help but laugh as she lept into his arms, his protective grasp gentle for fear of the little ones she carried. His paw gently combed through her hair, the Kuguar leaving gentle pecks to her forehead and the bridge of her nose. He protectively rested his paws over her risen stomach, sighing happily.<br/><br/>"They will be beautiful..I will have a name in mind when we reach that day...for now we must press on and for now..in the absense of fur.." He muttered as he dug through his pack, removing the Oxen pelt and settling the thick,layered fur over her shoulders as he took up her packs.<br/><br/>"Your main conscern needs to be to stay warm. Jax will most likely return with Lily to hibernate in her camp.." He muttered softly, eying the pair in the distance and smirking at the playful pat at Lily's rump. He looked back to her slowly, gently using a bag clasp to forcibly close the midsection of the fur around her, slicing small slits with a claw over the edges of the top and folding the seperate section over Taryn's head as a makshift hood.<br/><br/>"There...this should do until we reach the encampment. My home is mud brick and houses a fire pit. I could easily keep you warm within when we arrive.." He says as they begin their trek once more.<br/><br/>His eyes wandered the clouds of the horizoned mountains that stretched wide behind the walls of home to the North. winter was swift in its looming approach this season. he had to ensure Taryn and her brood's safe arrival. His warm paw clasped her hand as he quickened his pace though kept beneath a jog to keep her steady. Worry flooded him. They had much land to cover and not but a few nights to do so. He didn't want to by any means but should worse come to worse he would, against every better judgement, open a path to the hyane mines beneath them. The webs of caverns would make safe movement to the camps but would mean confrontation with Hyane and possibly their lord for their intrusion which he knew they did not have time nor the means to deal with.<br/><br/>His eyes would wander to Taryn ever few moments to ensure her conditions before flicking back to their path and the every darkening horizon. They had spent too much time regrouping in the canyon mouth and had lost much of their daylight. They would have to stop soon for camp lest Taryn freeze in the nights of the ever so brief precursor weeks to winter. His paw tightened about her hand and his pace quickened some. They had to cover as much ground as possible in the last moments of daylight gifted to them. The sun was waning over the western mountains and the moon was crowning over the eastern range. They were out of time. Raschen could already feel Taryn beginning to shiver in his grasp as winds of the Warren nights swept against them and seeped into their bones. He sighed in defeat as he came to a stop, looking to Jax and lily behind them.<br/><br/>"We must set up camp for the night.." He spoke with a worried glance to Taryn which explained his every reason to the Hase who sprang to work. He gently rested a second pelt oveer Taryn's shoulders as he erected their tent, lighting an oil lamp and settling it at the center with taryn's met covered in pelts.<br/><br/>"Come.." he beckoned, guiding her inside and near the warmth of the lamp flame, ensuring their tent was sealed from the winds that shook it. He was quick to settle her beneath the pelts, his warm paws resting over her stomach as he settled beneath the pelts beside her to give her his heat.<br/><br/>He smiled softly as he felt her shivers halting, gently stroking her hair. "I promised to keep you and the little ones safe and well and I shan't break that promise."