"I'll admit there have been times where I've thought about motherhood, though never for very long." Ariel gave a warm smile, "I'm glad that it has made you happy."

Kaleeth's nudge on Janius' side was timed just perfectly enough with him eating a mouthful of rice. The situation lapsed his concentration enough to idly take a breath through his mouthful, accidentally inhaling a grain of rice. Though he tried to shield his coughing with his mouth, the subsequent spray of rice out from the sides of his hand and mouth guaranteed that all of the attention he definitely did not want to attract to himself in this topic of conversation was drawn to him anyway. Janius desperately swallowed, coughed, and swigged from his waterskin until he could talk. "Pardon me," he croaked with almost teary eyes. He gave an acknowledging glance to Kaleeth-Rei, but nothing else to her hint.

Ariel, picking up on what the situation perhaps could have been about, stifled a laugh and redirected her attention to Ahnasha. "Sure, I'll hold Rhazii if he doesn't mind me," Ariel replied finally.

As his dinner was already at his side and Rhazii on his lap, Fendros repositioned Rhazii to hold him in his arms, then stood up and walked over to Ariel. He squatted beside her and she turned her body to receive the cub. "Say hello to Ariel, little one," Fendros said as he slowly passed Rhazii into Ariel's arms. Rhazii exchanged glances with Ariel, Fendros, and Ahnasha across from them with his mouth slightly ajar, but didn't seem too uncomfortable once secure in Ariel's arms.

"Hello Rhazii," Ariel said with a endearingly high voice while giving Rhazii a big grin. Rhazii moved an arm up and down excitedly, curling and relaxing his fingers. His scarring made his innocence slightly strange, especially up this close, but there was no denying that he was still an adorable little creature. Ariel and Rhazii sat staring at each other for a while, but for fear of holding him incorrectly, Ariel didn't really know what else to do. It seemed nice just to hold him like this though. It took longer than it should have for Ariel to notice Rhazii's eye colour, but she wasn't at all familiar with Khajiit children, so she didn't heed it as unusual. After a short while, Rhazii turned his head to other things. Ariel looked up with a thoroughly endeared smile. "Ahnasha, Fendros, you have a beautiful child."

Fendros returned the smile with agreement and looked at Rhazii. "Thank you."

After finishing a mouthful and pausing to burp through her nose as silently as she could, Sabine looked over at Janius and Kaleeth with innocent curiosity. "Are you going to have a baby as well, Kaleeth and Janius?"

Janius was quick to attempt answering first, clearing his throat noisily through his mouthful to buy time to swallow. Janius fumbled with his words all the same. "Well, it's not something we've really...well...I think it's a bit soon. There's a lot to consider with doing that, and...we have obligations with the pack ongoing, we would have to...ergh...make space for it and..." Janius began to trail off. It was clear enough that Janius was trying to avoid it, but with the pressure put on by Kaleeth, as well as other things on his mind, this was something causing him anxiety enough to have a sensitive reaction. Normally he was quick witted enough to deal with such things. Why did Sabine have to ask?