lost at sea
| Cormalin |
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He saw the disappointment in her eyes and felt a bit of sadness for her. He knew how it felt to be separated from one?s family. But she pulled herself together, accepting his offer of safety in Valhalla. And then something he said seemed to hit her, and her words trailed away, and it seemed as though her mind had started running miles a second. And then she spoke, and he felt his heart stop, then leap to a gallop, blood pounding through his ears, vaguely reminding him of Obsidian?s hooves when she ran across sand. Memories flooded him. Akana?s faint whispering of a name. Cl-Claire Aobhinne. For my mother, and yours. I love you Cormalin. They?re so beautiful. Mismatched eyes stared at the young black female that stood before him, sight veiled by mist. He answered her next words with a voice thickened by unshed tears. ?Yes? I knew them. Five years ago this last Winter, my mate and I were blessed with four beautiful pups. Three boys, and one girl. You. Akana faded after giving you your name, and blessing us all with her love before she fell asleep. I? I wanted to keep you all with me, but I couldn?t have kept any of you alive without milk. So I ran to find Laoch and Amber, knowing that they had just lost their litter, and that she still had milk that was in the correct stage to give my newborn children nourishment. Amber was glad to take you all. You were her chance at having a litter. They had tried? Many times before, to have a litter, but something always went wrong. ?So I gave her my children. But I couldn?t stay. That place held so many memories that I couldn?t stay. And I didn?t want to steal the happiness Laoch had in being a father by being there and taking away from his place. And I needed to find my sister, your aunt Erani. I needed to make sure she had survived, or find out if she had died. So I trailed her by word of mouth and my heart, and found her, not in this land, but in Old Alacritis. She was there, in this pack. Happy, strong, and she had become Lead Healer. I was a coward Claire. I watched her from a distance, watched her struggle when our Alpha female of that time became ill and died hating Erani for telling our Alpha the truth when she would have lied to him about how ill she really was. I watched from afar as Erani mourned and blamed herself for the Alpha female?s death, and as she raised the Alpha?s children to be strong wolves. Our current Alpha female is one of those children. Chrysanthe.
?And then the mountain in the northern region of the land erupted, and we were all forced to run. Some were scattered, and I got separated from the pack. And when I found the group in out new territory, the new Alpha, Collision, noticed a friend I had met along the way, Obsidian, and spoke to me. You should have seen your Aunts face. After that, seasons later, I finally approached her, her pregnant with her first litter, and we spoke. I had expected her to reject me. But she accepted me as though years hadn?t passed. So, I am at home now. We?ve gone through a lot of Alpha changes, but we?ve settled down now.? He was rambling, oh how he was rambling. Part of it was shock, and another was from how much he had dreamed of talking to his children, telling him about the years he had been gone. He was in a dream, and yet he was afraid. Like with Erani, he was scared his daughter would hate him for not staying. Mismatched eyes gazed into the pale blue and green pools, wanting to see what she was thinking, and fearing it. |