It had been too long. She had been held down in that hole for... 3 years? Just about. She had to listen to her mother and conquer her fear. Charon. It was so difficult; not only to learn how to control her feelings as Charon tormented her, but to live inside Hell's River with no one but herself and her voices. She had always wished that she could do that. Live on her own with no rules and no one telling her what to do. But one day she realized half her life was gone and the next thing you know she would be digging her own grave if she was able to.
The scarred woman walked through the place of her last true home, eye to the lands that no longer held the dens of her pack mates or even her parents. It was all gone, there was no trace of Olympus, Pantheon. And she wondered if she were the only one left with her name. She felt truly alone in the whole world and she had no one to blame but herself. And she did. She blamed herself for forcing her mother to disown her, for ripping apart her entire family. And in the end, killing her mother. She didn't do it with her own teeth but she might as well. Natalya was there to take her back and risked it all in a losing battle. She could have had maybe a few more months with her pups and that would have made the world to them now.
Chione made her way all the way to the ocean, staring forward at the cliff side from a distance for a while. Eventually she slowly stepped her way over to the edge, not hesitating, without fear of falling over the side. She craned her neck over and looked far down at the clusters of rocks pointing up at her and only thought of what had happened years ago. She looked these splashing stones head on with tears streaming down her face back then. Pebbles sliding across the surface beneath her paws as she trembled and tiptoed closer and closer.
"We could try it again, Princess." Charon teased her.
She shook her head in regret but stayed standing on the cliff's edge. If she had jumped that day than she believed that there would be no more Olympians. She would have truly destroyed her line there and she was grateful for changing her mind. Though maybe she wouldn't have put her family through hell and Natalya would have been able to stay with her children longer and the pack wouldn't have been lost. There were so many what-if's that would stay unanswered but Chione wanted to be a better wolf. She would stay strong and make her mother Proud. Natalya would know of the greatness that she had achieved. And maybe Helios could be up there by her side, smiling down on his once-disturbed daughter.
