May 1
In Lamb
He knows something is wrong before she says it.
It’s the sounds.
Not the usual quiet whimpers she tries to swallow down, not the soft apologies she breathes into the crook of her arm when her stomach starts hurting again—
No, this is something else.
Small, strained noises that you wouldn’t usually hear come from a human. Rather, from a wounded animal.
"In lamb" is an adjective phrase describing a female sheep (ewe) that is pregnant. It signifies that a ewe is expecting, commonly used to describe livestock preparing to give birth.