Reap Just What You Sow

Her brother had vanished, for a whole three days they had seen hide nor hair of Gabriel. Lyric wasn't sure why her brother had been so standoffish lately, but the girl hadn't a clue as to how she could help. And so she watched, sticking close to her other siblings, and quite possibly added to the pain in his isolated heart. But she was naive, she didn't know, and she loved him just as much as Arella and Surreal. She followed her mother as she stalked the territory, patrolling for any sightings of her beloved son.


She heard it, heard his yelling, although she couldn't quite make out words from where she was. The anger in his voice made her recoil, and she pressed closer to Erani. Why was he so angry? What had happened to make him run away? He was so hard to understand, the girl was lost, but she knew that she wanted to help, somehow.


When her mother stepped out of the shadows, she stayed behind, her swirling mismatched eyes pinned on the dark male that was her brother. He greeted her with a strange sort of kindness, something that she hadn't heard in her siblings before. 'Brother, what has happened to you?' She held back a whine, her ears twitching when the brown male started talking. He seemed to make sense - they could go and visit Pip whenever they wanted, Seracia and Valhalla were friends, it didn't matter if they went back and forth. Was this what Gabriel was so upset about? She winced at his response, hearing him speak so ill of Epiphron.


In her mind, hearing him speak of their sister that way meant that he never loved her. Calling her a traitor, saying he didn't need her, he couldn't have truly loved the girl because if he did he would be happy with her. Her lips twitched, and she sighed, hearing him say that friends only brought him pain. Did he feel the same way about his siblings? They loved him, and although she wasn't sure about the others, she would have loved to spend more time with Gabe. But if she was only going to hurt him... Lyric stayed put, waiting for her mother to either take Gabe back to the dens or for her to leave. She just wanted to pad beside, more than anything else.