what now?

*Ara* · 10-23-2017, 06:11 PM

Ara hoped quite desperately that the glint of tears had disappeared from her eyes. It wasn't even that Fiori in particular had meant a lot to her - it was a shame she hadn't gotten to know more of her packmates in the years that she'd been here - but the pack had simply been something to cling on to. After everything else that had meant something to her had gone away, it gave her some semblance of normalcy and hope to hang on to. Now, she largely felt like she had nothing left, and she felt a strange sense of hopelessness and dread that she had been fighting for some time, now weighing heavy on her heart.

Her mood was substantially lifted when she saw Athena, though to say she was anywhere near happy would be a stretch. Still, she managed a weary smile, and instead of flinching at Athena's touch she welcomed it, twisting her head to return the simple touch. "I'm happy to see you too," she admitted without hesitation. There were few wolves left that she cared for - most had been gone for so long that it was hard to even remember how long it had really been - and Athena was slowly becoming one of them. As the years went on, it was growing harder to let anyone in, though somehow since she and Athena had been through some of the same things, their friendship blossomed quite naturally.

Athena's question caught her slightly by surprise, though she ought to have anticipated it. What was she going to do? Truthfully, she had no idea. "I considered staying, but.." Ara's words were followed by a soft sigh. "There's too many memories here." Both good ones and bad ones, though the best ones seemed too far in the past to recollect perfectly now. "Perhaps I'll travel awhile. I've always enjoyed that." Mostly in the company of Novel, and usually just quick trips - enough to get a bit of wanderlust out of her system before returning to the safety of her home. "What about you?" Her gaze was bright and curious as she asked, her head tilting to watch her carefully. She knew Athena had children, though they were grown like her own and seemed to have been scarce for some time, so she wasn't sure if anything would keep her here either.

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