Roxanne deliberately made her nest near the edges of their territory. She loved her family, she really did, but she didn’t want them smothering her or her hatchlings. They were too complicated. Her cousins had never fully warmed up to Roxanne or her siblings, and her parents were hardly around. Eventually, she could trust Randolph and Rebecca with their nieces and nephews, but for now, she wanted time alone with her children.
In the end, it turned out to be only one child. She laid ...