back in your arms again

"Good. I won't let you," she insisted, a hard bite to her voice. She'd meant it to come out as a joke but it didn't land that way. Theory wanted to shelter and protect the remaining family that she had left. They had lost so much. When she'd looked to her own siblings for comfort after Tana's passing she'd been shut out. Noir and Verse couldn't offer her the same kind of comfort that this sister of her heart could. Bitterly, she wished that Noir could see her now. He'd have never seen this coming. Would he be surprised? Hurt? The childish part of her hoped that it might hurt him. Theo couldn't avoid the pettiness of being a teenager even if she was the leader of one of the largest packs in Boreas. Some things took more time to outgrow.

"There's so much I want to tell you... where to start," she murmured through the tears, gingerly wiping them away with a paw before she sat down to really think. "Rhyme has gotten better, thanks in part to a new pack member. She's helped with his grief considerably." Her words were tentative. Theory was curious how Poem might feel about another female presence in their father's life. "The children are growing. They'll be so big you won't believe your eyes."