Bittersweet
12-23-2015, 12:08 AM
Walk | Talk | Think She had seen her parents. She had seen her parents. How often had she wished to see them one more time? How often had she wished for one more chance to hold them, to tell them she loved them, to simply be in their loving presence again? As fate would have it, she got to do just that. The dream shocked her, surprised her, and made the conscious part of her that traveled through it wish to stay there for as long as she could. She hugged them, kissed them, cried with them and told them all about her present life in the waking world. It was a struggle, at moments, to believe what she was seeing, to think that it might be real, but in the end it did not matter. She loved her parents, missed them dearly, and planned to cherish every single second that she had with them. Which made waking up so heartbreaking. Her yellow-gold eyes fluttered, blinking into the darkness of the cave, as she drowsily searched for her parents. Not the forest by the river, she thought. No, not the river at all. Darkness, the sound of her claws scraping on the stone of the cavern as she shifted, and the telltale scent of the ocean helped to quickly identify her location, and she felt her eyes fill suddenly with tears as her throat close around a burning lump. It was them, she thought as her lower lip wobbled, I got to see them again. No sooner had her eyes filled, the tears spilled over, her head tucking as she tried to stay silent while Glacier slept at her side. It hurt - oh, how it hurt - to wake up not knowing if she would ever get another chance to see them again. She missed her mother and father terribly, wished they could still be living so that they could meet her mate, see the birth of her pups, be an active part of their lives. But all she had been granted was a dream Wracked by grief that she had long since thought dormant, Anais sobbed and felt her control shatter while the long-quiet emotions swamped through her. |
Art by Dancing Crows
* Because he has become her protector, Glacier is allowed into any and all threads that Anais may be in, regardless of how they are tagged.