Must have been the wind

*Roza* · (This post was last modified: 08-26-2020, 06:44 PM by Roza.)

She couldn't quite decipher the expressions that flicked across Farrah's face at the offer to let her stay with her in her den and she began to worry that she had crossed some kind of boundary again, but then she was surprised and delighted to hear Farrah speak instead. It made her ivory ears perk with interest and a bit of shock. She listened just as closely as Ulric, but her blue gaze shifted back and forth between her son and the slender woman while she tried to make out what it was that Farrah wanted to do. Mother present? She followed Ulric's gaze to the beaten up rabbit that sat at his paws and still hadn't quite gathered what she meant until she saw Ulric pass it off to the woman. She hadn't known that the rabbit had been a gift from Ferrah to Ulric originally so she hadn't had that context to go off of. Her son's voice was just quiet enough that she couldn't fully hear what he said to Ferrah as he passed off the rabbit to her.

When she saw Ferrah pick up the rabbit from where Ulric had placed it and watched her turn in her direction Roza began to figure it out. A present for her - Ulric's mother. Her eyes widened with surprise and she watched Ferrah move closer and stop when she was just out of reach, placing the rabbit between them. For a moment she felt like she had been teleported back to four years a go or more to when Ulric and Philomena were still pups. She remembered Ulric bringing her a rabbit or some other kind of small prey that wasn't in much better shape than Ferrah's was - back when Ulric had been a clumsy and unskilled hunter at best. He'd gotten in trouble a few days prior for something that she couldn't even recall now and had brought it to her as an apology. He'd looked so pitifully apologetic back then and it was hard to look at him now and not see that same little pup. She was pretty sure her children would always be children in her eyes.

Looking at Ferrah now, she couldn't help but feel the same sort of over joyed excitement that she was pretty sure all parents felt when their children brought them their first kills. It never really mattered how well they had been killed or how intact they were - it was just the fact that they had done it and she was proud regardless."Thank you, Ferrah!" he said with a wide, proud smile as her tail wagged behind her. "That's incredibly sweet of you, thank you. This means so much to me." She hadn't realized the emotions her memories had pulled to the surface until she felt the lump forming in her throat. She swallowed past it and quickly tried to blink away the few tears that had begun to form. It was so silly for her to be getting so emotional over something like this, but it was hard not to with everything that had happened recently and now being reminded of what had once been.

She smiled and leaned forward to take the rabbit and set it beside her in order to officially accept her gift and to give her a moment to collect herself. She could tell that Ferrah had purposefully put herself out of her reach so she didn't try to lean closer to give her any affection or physical sign of thanks even though it was very much in her nature to do just that. Roza was quiet for a moment as she looked at the rabbit again, that smile never leaving her lips. "Ferrah... If you need a home you have one here," she said as she lifted her gaze to the woman's one eyed gaze again - not realizing that her sapphire eyes were shining with tears. It was less of a question or an offer this time - now it was a statement. She had a home here if she ever wanted to take advantage of it. "I had always dreamed of having a huge family with so many children, but fate didn't allow for that. I have Ulric and... and I had Philomena and I'm proud to have them of course, but... if you ever need someone to be your mother, I would be happy to be that for you."

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