This second pregnancy was already taking a toll on her body and Eva was loathe to admit it, but she wasn't quite as fit as she had been with her last one. She had dropped most of the weight between them, her active lifestyle keeping her busy, but stationary life had made her a little soft. Not traveling was certainly a huge change and it showed. Eva wasn't complaining of course, she loved her life, loved sleeping in her own bed, next to her husband and waking up to her beautiful baby and life, but she did miss it sometimes.

Fortunately between their own working farm and the zoo itself, Eva was kept busy and that kept her moving and her mind off other things. She was due to switch with Beau on baby duty soon however, and so she made her way out of the aviary, with Bastien and Lucy on her heels. Bastien took off like a shot, which usually meant Amelia was nearby, but as Eva waddled behind him, Lucy happily keeping pace with her, it was not her fellow magizoologist that Bastien found harassing.

"Porphyria," Eva greeted with a laugh as Bastien tried to snuggle into her friend's skirts. "I would have left him locked up if I'd know you were around," Her diricawl had an unnatural fondness for Phyri, even now that she was human again and no longer a wren. "I may never get him to leave you alone now." It was always an effort.