first frost

Maybe Indy came to his aunt a couple too many times crying or upset, and this likely wouldn’t be the last. He was an emotional young boy, and he felt safe showing those emotions to his aunty. Io was quick to meet him at the door as he cried out, he should have used his words but they were so hard. There was so much emotion swelling up inside his throat he couldn’t speak. ”My heart.” He squeaked as tears dripped heavily from his sapphire blue eyes.

Iolaire pulled him close to her chest and offer him her physical comfort as he sniffled softly. He cried into her fur as she asked what was wrong, and he tried to catch his breath as he hiccupped pitifully. ”My garden…” Indy’s voice barely worked as he choked out the words. ”My garden is dying. He sobbed heavily, certain he was a total failure. His poor innocent plants, he’d only wanted to take care of them and now they were dying because of him.