The Dwelling

In Shaentha's tracts of cozy, happy homes
A pair as Felna joined with Lukna live.
While Felna job has voltage, wire and ohms,
Lukna’s legal job has much to give.

While home the pair maintain a lovely shrine
To gods of virtue, joy, success and calm.
As work and household tasks through time combine,
These skulme crave the roles of dad and mom.

As loving, corvid mates in marriage bound,
Through eager hope, they plan to raise their eggs;
With help from eager nursing staff they found,
They make their plans through calls and hurried legs.

Today arrives a nurse with useful things –
A skulme known as Nalna there. Her mien
Is joined beside the door by buzzer rings;
While dressed in scrubs she’s surely meek but keen.

“I’m here for you” says Nal with ample zest.
“Come in” Lukna says to Nal with zeal
And leads upstairs the nurse to see her nest;
The nest’s secured with lighted warmth to feel.

Despite persistent grief, Lukna’s soothed
By Felna’s hardy hands upon her back.
Her worried mind and bundled nerves are smoothed
While surely seeing Nalna’s working sack.

Inspecting every egg, their nest and where
They lay, a thorough Nalna makes the heat
Just right – without the means to chafe or wear
Their shells. She also keeps the bedroom neat.

“Your brood is surely safe in hands like mine”
Says Nalna smile. “I’ll watch your eggs of three
And keep them healthy here. They’re truly fine.
When hatching’s near, I’ll signal you to see.”

In time, the skulme pair continue work
While Nalna then secures the eggs with care.
Though tense, Lukna strives – a legal clerk
With much to do while Felna’s wires have wear.

For Felna, joined with Lukna, days proceed.
A signal quickly sent they both receive.
“It’s time” says Nalna text with words to heed –
A need to come, the couple now perceive.

With haste upstairs they go – with Lukna fair
And Felna there as Nalna’s near the nest.
The eggs of three with swiftness shake; The air
Is filled with deeper breaths both thrilled and stressed.

The cracks of every egg with time expand
And usher forth the corvid young of fair
Young Lukra kept in Felna’s hug. Each hand
And infant body greets the bedroom air.

Their birth brings cooing friends and baby toys
As Felna’s joined with Lukra’s love and zest;
As tiny, glabrous birds their infant boys
Enjoy the world outside their hatching nest.