Kiss of an Empress

The heavy thudding of paws sounded behind her though she did not turn, focused only upon the water and how still he remained as he sunk beneath it. A part of her had expected it to be a joke, some sick prank to tear her from her anger. The longer he remained beneath the surface the less likely it seemed.

Resin wasted no time diving in after him and Zee abandoned her watch to pace along the broken remnants of the bridge. Once more she found herself too small and too weak to help him, a pitiful excuse for an alpha who would have been forced to allow him to drown if the bigger and stronger pack wolves were not present. Her emotions were draining quickly, and as Resin pulled her warlord free she realized how tired she had become. "Get Io, then Deathbelle." The command was given to the toucan, who lifted back into the sky to search for the healers.

Seeing him back on dry land was relieving, though she struggled to let the emotion in. "Will he be okay?" To Resin, her first acknowledgement of the wolf who had come to his rescue. "Can you manage him to our den?" She needed to see him safe and breathing, the rest she would figure out later.