slip slidin' away

Venom didn’t very often scale the mountain that held the caverns of the palace, but it didn’t seem like anyone else did either. Her tall form made her way upwards and as she went the snow became more intense and she felt the chill more keenly. The girl was not as susceptible to cold as her mother was. Maybe it was her tall form, but her thin frame didn’t help keep her insulated at all. She was prepared though, and still wore the scrap of polar bear fur over her back.

She preferred solitude these days, she was quiet in the pack but she hadn’t forgotten her training or the end goal. She was going to be Empress, and she knew it would be sooner than it felt like. Her mind raced with thoughts of the future as her violet gaze searched the peak above her. She didn’t know what she was looking for, but as the stress of her position weighed on her the girl couldn’t see how much she needed to relax.

She huffed heavily as she came to a halt, she was maybe half way to the summit and she relaxed into the snow at the base of a gentle slope. She needed to get control of the world around her, she needed to settle her emotions and she needed to focus on her future. She was the last of her siblings in the race to be ruler of the Ashen Empire and it was time to get real, but why was it so hard to focus on that goal?

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