Our love is like a Crescent Moon

Voltage was relaxing for the first time in a little while. Wasn't it that his children were supposed to be a fraction of him, not a...multiplication? Illume had him running wild, and a lesser man would be exhausted. Voltage, luckily was just a little tired, and completely distracted most of the time. He had dropped the ball when it came to other pack's visit, he barely kept up with his duties, but it was only for a short time. Children, as he knew, grew fast, he was just beyond happy that she had a childhood to enjoy. Then again, he had had a childhood too, untill the young age when they were tossed from their home, ripped from their younger siblings lives for a time... That wouldn't happen to his daughters, no. Dono was strong, they were fine. Illie could enjoy running around, getting her little sister in trouble, doing whatever her heart desired. They would never have to live through what he and Glacier did. He sighed softly as he relaxed in his den, alone for once but not sleeping. His sporadic insomnia had returned, he often found himself jolted awake at night either from memories or nightmares...or sometimes both.

Sometimes he was in his parents place, casting Illie and Current out into the world, alone. He wondered if they would be as close as he and Glacier had been. If Illie would remind Current how to smile, or if Current would settle the raging emotion flitting through the sky girl. There was something about his daughters that reminded him of he and his brother, perhaps not...exactly. It wasn't that current was a clone of Glacier, nor was Illie exactly like him...there was Gaia in there too. There was just something about his daughter's energy and quietness that reminded him of the original duo.

He sighed softly as he gazed at a stone he had plucked from his Pretty Rock Collection, his paw gently rolling it back and forth as he thought of his brother. With Voltage's children, he barely had time to spend with the ice beast anymore, nor anyone else for that matter. He desperately missed his family, and soon...soon they would have a celebration, welcome Illie and Current into their lives and family. But for now, Voltage just relaxed. His eyes felt heavy as he gazed at the stone, almost ready to fall into a short, nearly restless sleep, when something fell between his paw and his nose. He blinked his eyes open, ears swivelling forward as he stared at the odd quartz. Its familiarity was not lost on him.

His head would jolt up, eyes quickly turning towards his brother as he made himself comfortable in Voltage's den. Stormy eyes reguarded him, at first swimming in memory before lighting at the very thought that Glacier had spent all this time looking for an identical stone. There had been a brief moment he had thought it was the original, but that wouldn't be possible. That smile was gone, forgotten in their travels, and Voltage had spent a very large portion of his life, and most of his time settling into the beach, trying to find another one. "Glace.." He said in his gentle voice, his eyes growing misty as he turned to gaze back down at the stone. He remembered so visibly the moment they seemed to fall into their rolls when they were children. After struggling for days, weeks to try and survive, worried for their siblings and wondering desperately if they were okay and safe and happy. After Voltage nearly went insane with his flitting emotions, often shifting from laughter to rage to sorrow in millaseconds, and Glacier slipped into his tundra of solemn acceptance and his icy shield...after Voltage found the best way to combat his emotions was to hold a smirk that would become so familiare to him... He had taught Glacier how to smile again, and Glacier had shown him how to handle the static of his emotions. "Where did you find this?" He whispered softly, his paw shifting from his pretty rock to the quartz, his eyes shining and his smile stretching across his face.

"Burn Baby Burn"