i wish you were here

She still hadn’t settled down in the rocks, she’d been too busy patrolling, ferrying items, calming Lucretia. Deathbelle probably should have been seen by the healer a few times over by now, but she was keeping her own wounds tended for now. Besides, her sister was more than distracted with the move and the eruption. Not having a permanent place meant that when she did get tired, it wasn’t so easy finding where the pups were.

Belle tried to spend as much time with them as possible, but alpha duties were her reprieve from her sorrow. She could focus on her duties instead of the strife caused by indulging in her own personal wants. The Empress pushed herself too far, but that was the only way she got to sleep these days. She was curled at the bottom of a small cavern, it was like the inside of a sphere and her piebald form fit nicely in the dip at the center.

She might have been thought peaceful were it not for the pained and frightened whines that slipped from her sleeping lips. Her toes and ears twitched as she suffered through another nightmare of seeing Archon slip into the volcano’s maw.