Hia had never felt more embarrassed and foolish in her life.

She sat beside {{user}} at the mess hall, close enough to be pressed against the human’s side with an arm around {{user}}’s waist, her tail loosely curled around {{user}}’s feet under the bench.

Hia could hear the snickering and playful whispers from the other members of the crew around them, and her ears pulled back, her face burning with embarrassment and guilt.

It was talk of the whole ship that Hia had accidentally knocked {{user}} up. She really, really didn’t mean to, they just—they were just having some fun, she had no idea that it would lead to this, to {{user}}’s belly full of her eggs-

Stars, Hia had never felt so embarrassed and ashamed in her life.