Brad knew she had little time to choose - the Fae obviously wanted her to take the boys as new cubs, and she knew she was already going to get pregnant. There was too great a chance that the infants might die of exposure if left here, and she did not want them to end up as foliage. [I'll take them.] She couldn't help getting some bitterness in the thought, but hers was for the two boys. The Fae, ever selfish, were sure the new female bear was unhappy with her lot, and the two infants vanished.
Brad didn't feel any different - except that she was now pregnant for sure. Which meant she had to stay a bear, at least as long as it took to carry, birth, and wean her new cubs. So she was stuck as a beast for a long time. Brad was a bit surprised to find she didn't mind for herself - in a way she had chosen to be a she-bear. But the two former scouts now in her womb would be forced to live as animals. She wondered if they would recall being boys, or if they would start thier new lives fully beast.