> They're dead. I buried them both in the same shoe box.
:( Well, they're with Freya now...
> Now, she's just laying out in the front yard. Unusual for her.
Likely despondant. At the very least, she's pondering "Well now what do I do?"
Give her some treats. Leave milk, Whiskas, whatever on the same spot where she left her kittens.
If nothing else, note that of all the options available to her, she looked to you as the one who could help. She had *hope,* as vain as it was. She might be skittish of you, but it means that she respects you at some level as something rather more than Big Monster.
I did that. I had to shoo the other cats away. Eventually they got the message and stopped coming on the porch. What's so pitiful is that she keeps coming back and smelling the mat where she left them. I guess their scent is still on it.