Oh, Let's Go Back To The Start...

*Fel* · 10-04-2020, 09:55 PM

Not maternal in the slightest, Fel didn't quite know what to do for the crying mess of fur. When he wrapped his little arms around her own and buried his face in her chest though, she reacted in instinct. Fel extracted her arm from his grasp and wrapped them both around him, pulling him tightly to her. She was being comforting, look at that. Onyx ears flicked forward as Deus began to speak. She couldn't look at him though. She only had eyes for the crushed body and the trail of blood.

Deus insisted that she go get Aureus and the marbled woman felt her stomach drop. Oh no... She didn't have to see him to know that her brother was dead. The panicked howls, the acrid tang of blood in the air. If she had to go get him, then he had already been gotten, in a sense. Pulling back, she looked down at the boy, her eyes, the very color of the blood that ran in rivers behind them, bored into him. "Deus, I want you to go over there behind that boulder and wait for me. Don't look back. Just go and wait." She gave him a little push of encouragement before turning to face the direction that the boy had indicated Aureus was in.

The woman's steps were slow, each paw well placed lest she bring down more rocks. Pebbles still fell periodically, but other than that, the place was deathly quiet. The body of the unknown man didn't matter to her. She didn't know him, so she didn't care. All of her focus was on what she knew would be laying ahead. The dust had mostly settled, but the finer powder still lingered in the air, giving the place a slightly ethereal look. She didn't want it to be pretty here. She wanted it to be as ugly as the situation was. He was dead. Her brother was dead.

Claret gaze fell upon the broken, battered body of Aureus. Blood pooled around his partially open mouth. Boulders rested upon his body. There would be no way that she could push them off of him. It didn't matter though. He was gone. She stared a moment longer and felt... nothing. Fel was empty and dry as a husk. Shock was what it was. Shock and disbelief. The slender woman turned her back on the corpse that had formerly been her most loved sibling. It wasn't until she closed her eyes that everything sank in. Her legs shook and she sank to the ground in a hard sit. She wouldn't cry. She couldn't. She had to get the boy back to his mother. She had to tell Eli and Pyrrhic.

Leaving the scene behind her, the wide eyed woman moved stiffly forward. She collected Deus with a scoop of one paw and brought him close so that they could walk back together. "We have to go get Uncle Eli, okay?" She forced a smile, though no doubt her gaze was haunting. "We'll go get him and you can run and find your mother while he and I work, okay?" She didn't want him to argue. She wanted and needed him to obey.

"Fel" "Oona"

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