Back when days were simple
03-07-2017, 10:23 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-07-2017, 10:23 PM by Falk.)
Ever since they returned from their journey to find a cure for Surreal he had spent most of his time laying in their den sleeping. While he was sleeping he could dream of a time that was painfully long ago now. Back before he lost his sight, back when he and Surreal were still young and optimistic. Sometimes he could lay there awake and imagine that Surreal was still there. After all, it wasn't like he could have seen her even if she was laying right beside him. He just imagined that she was laying quietly a few feet from him and it made him feel better in a sad, bitter sweet kind of way. He had so much guilt and regret in his heart for his family and his children. He wanted to be there for them and be the father they deserved, but he had never really been that. At least he didn't think so. Now here he was with what he imagined was little time left and no energy or will to make it right. Now all he could do was hope that his children wouldn't hold it against him. He felt himself uneasily falling into sleep and he did nothing to fight it. Falk opened his eyes and found himself on the edge of the plains that made up the border of the pack... but this wasn't Celestial. This was long before Celestial existed. He pulled himself to his paws and looked up at the sky, seeing the bright blue sky above him. Oh how he missed this. His joints didn't ache, everything he saw was clear and beautiful. He looked back down across from him and he came face to face with the one woman that had always made his heart flutter, looking as wonderful and lovely as the first day they met. That's what this was, wasn't it? His memory from the first day they met. "I'm so tired, Surreal," he heard himself saying even though that would have been an awfully strange thing to say for a first meeting. "I just want to sleep forever." And so he would. Slowly his breathing came to a stop and moments later he peacefully drifted off into death. Speech Thought Others |
