Reap Just What You Sow
06-22-2013, 12:29 PM
Erani |
Erani had been wild with worry for her youngest son. They all had. He?d been gone for three days. Not a fresh trace in those three days anywhere in Valhalla. So she had taken to running the borders as often as she could. Surreal had been miserable. The wedding itself had gone well, and it had done her heart well to see Epiphron so happy. But Gabriel had been so quiet. And had slipped away without anyone noticing. It was Surreal who had noticed first. And then a desperate search. But at some point, Gabriel had lost them. Perhaps they had lost him before he?d even slipped away. She had tried her best to keep him from going this path. But as she caught his scent and charged toward it, she slowed to a silent trot as she heard his voice. It made her stomach hurt and her heart clench. The venom he was directing at a wolf who only wanted to help. The hate. Her thoughts turned to Neo, and jerked away again. No. Not her Gabriel. Not him, too. Her son?s voice had risen to a scream that she had never expected to hear from him. She stepped from the shadows. ?Gabriel!? She said his name without a rise in her voice. Only immeasurable pain. She stood and gazed at him. Wanting to rewind time herself to stop his trailing down the path of hatred. No mother wanted to hear hate in her child?s voice. The other wolf, Gael as she recognized him, was ignored as she kept her full attention on her child. |