"Why thank ya kindly Miss Anna." Kira replied back to her new and only female friend of the crew, reaching and tipping her hat to the woman.

Kira beamed up at Miss Anna with a shy smile from her place of sitting on the log, gently taking the bowl of hearty, soft, chewy meat which was deliciously mixed with a generous amount of veggies, eggs, cheese and beans. She made it her mission to pay the woman back once she had a generous amount of money in her possession. She ate her meal silently, watching the woman walk off. 

She hoped that the unborn child, the early but still developing offspring within her womb was eating alright and gathering nutrients alright. They would be eating a lot more but this was for what they could do for now.

The woman whose name she now knew by her first name as Anna had been nothing but sweet as a kitten to her and Kira had nothing to offer to her and that made her feel lower than the dirt beneath the soles of her elegant but hardworking light brown and tan designed cowgirl boots. 

She ate and consumed with slow bites and swallows, savoring the hearty, juicy and meaty taste that it provided to her once complaining belly. She sighed softly, muttering between bites. "You are delicious I reckon." She savored the delicious taste alright, knowing that if she asked for more that there would not be enough for the rest of the crew so she refrained from doing such things.

She sighed and waited for her beloved husband to return, becoming more and more impatient with his absence as time passed on by like what seemed like many many many years. She knew that he was only gone a few hours but her hormones made her emotions haywire because of the pregnancy and she was all over the place. She sighed softly, wanting to be in his arms and just sitting or laying with him for a while.

She licked the spoon when it seemed as though no one looked in her direction and then the bowl as swiftly as she could, making sure that she got each and every last morsel that the soup provided. She was glad when the woman had provided seconds to her and her belly was full.

"Yes, I reckon you're right Miss Claudia." She said, a hand rubbing her own stomach affectionately as she smiled. "And my husband went off huntin' to the Huntin' Cabin. He left before the first light of dawn." She said, holding her now empty bowl. 

She set the bowl off to a side on the ground, getting up to her feet. She too wanted to see just how refreshing the water was on her heated flesh. 

She got up to the shore of the water, squatting down as she washed her face to cool herself down. "It is mighty hot out here, a nice horse ride into town would do much wonders."

"I would love to go with you into town, Miss Claudia." She replied to one of the other women.

"Very well, we will be off gettin' supplies as ya said Mister Elijah." She said to Elijah, nodding her head. She was shorter than him and she was always imitidated with tall people, especially men but she became friend attached to Elijah and the crew she was around.

She felt a dull nausea in her stomach but knew that it was because of the pregnancy. She rubbed her stomach, closing her eyes and focusing on her breathing softly to force it to pass and fade. "Thank God." She muttered low beneath her soft, next blown out breath when it did.

She arose back up to a position of standing, walking around the camp as she awaited her husband's return, she hummed to herself, feeling as if she would never see him until night if he was unable to catch prey.