i can't follow you into the dark

Grief overwhelmed her and struck her down. Eris closed her eyes and allowed herself to drift away. She mourned the possibility of what could have been - two little boys, joyous and dutiful and dedicated to Fenris. True warriors in a way that she could never be. Shivers rocked her body as she sunk to a lower depth of consciousness. It felt as if she was underwater - everything else was muffled and distant.

Oxide's voice brought her back towards the surface, but part of her craved the dullness of that deep, dark place. Her pain was less; everything was less. The thought of Casper and the warmth of Oxide drew her back. Anxiously she tapped worry, concern, lonely on his paw in one harried movement. They had to return to their den. Who was watching Casper? Eris shoot another longing look towards the hollow tree where her other son laid buried, then finally gestured back towards the coast and the other Ademre.