When She Loved Me

Rhythm felt Valentine curl around her and she ceased to struggle to get up. While he had expressed his rage fully to their son he was nothing but sweet to her as he reassured he worries. He was right too, she didn't remember his losing a single fight in the time she had known him. 

The bleeding of her tongue slowed as she took control of her breathing. She stifled a giggle at her self inflicted wound, now was not the time or place. Rhyme was quick to follow his father's directions. Soon she would have food in her belly again and begin to regain the strength it had taken to even make it this far. She nuzzled into Valentine's fur, still having trouble believing they had made it back and he had been here waiting on them. 

"I could always count on you." she whispered as the corners of her lips pulled up into a smile. "Now that you have our tale.. Does our daughter live?" the loss of Rhys had caused her much heartache over the years. Knowing she had left her daughter with out a mother..