No parent should have to bury their child
01-25-2019, 04:36 PM
Rhyme arrived in his own time and Tana had taken the time in the silence to let her emotions go. She had to be a rock for Rhyme, who had never experienced the loss of a child like she had. It felt weird to even think about, her being a woman anyone leaned on for strength. It was not exactly how she saw herself. In her version of herself she was a weak little girl who wasn't even able to help herself. Rhyme came silently aside from the crunch of the snow to sit behind her. She knew it was him so she didnt worry. No one else walked with his steps or came to be so close to her. She didnt even deserve this from him though. She was no alphess, no pretty little thing to warm his bed at night. She could smell shaye and birth on him. Her ears pressed back. She pulled the herbs from her bag and laid them in the tiny grave carefully. Lambs ear, horsetail, marigold, and meadow sweet arranged with her own favorites, lilacs and lavender. She had arranged and tied them in a circle to lay Darlinor on the stems and the flowers would sprout in a circle next spring. All the herbs she knew were for wounds, mostly wounds one could obtain in combat. Rhyme might recognize them if he had ever needed any. She sat back then, leaning into his chest with a paw on the bundle that was their son, hovering ever so carefully and gently. She had bloodied her paws, opening the scars from her servitude under Elias, but it didnt matter to her. She had grown so used to pain that this was barely noticed. She'd bind them later honestly. A breath was let out. Her aides still moved in a way that gave way to her silent crying. She couldn't cry tears anymore but she still couldn't help but let the reaction take hold of her. "I... don't know if... I can.... say goodbye." she spoke between her quiet sobs. He hadn't even had the chance to be allowed to be alive. Yet she loved him already before he was alive. A mother's love was certainly unconditional and unable to be understood completely. She wished so bad that it had been her and not him. That she didn't have to bury him, that the only life lost from this had been her own. She would give anything to be the one in his place. speech action |
Tana is a flighty individual, with absolutely no will to fight. She might get scared and run mid-thread, I apologize in advance for this. Its nothing against your characters, she has just had a tough past and has a hard time trusting anyone.