Instant Relief

She had been guarded and had Paddy pasted to her side. With the venomous snake around her neck she obeyed every word, not fearing her life as much as her son's life. When Torin had came into view it had been difficult not to just run to him, so much that her legs had quaked during the whole process. She was afraid the women would go back on her word, feared that she and Paddy would be taken away again. It had killed her nerves and it felt like things took forever to go through. To see the anger in her mate's eyes even scared her a little, but she knew it was anger in seeing how her and paddy were being treated. When the snake left her and she was ordered to go she ran to Torin, hobbling slightly from her evident limp. She pushed herself into him, but it was only brief before he brushed the both of them away. For the sake of keeping up she held up her weakened limb to keep up with her mate and for the longest time during their travel she said nothing. Silvery blue eyes kept looking back to make sure they weren't being fallowed and to be sure Paddy was still in sight. She fallowed Torin for a long time in silence, her mind occupied and her weariness of the women who captured them taking up most of her thoughts. Though when they finally got far enough, far enough to her at least she would break ahead of her mate and stop in front of him, turn to face him, then bury her face into his chest. They were close enough to home, but she couldn't hold back her happiness any longer. It had been so long since she had seen him that she feared the worse and had even feared his life during the whole exchange.

She wasn't in to bad of health, a little skinny and had a limp that would remain with her for the rest of her years, but her wounds from the hunting accident had healed and she didn't have any other wounds. She deeply breathed in his scent letting it drown out the other scents around him while she nuzzled her face and nose through his chest in affection. She had missed him so much that it had hurt, that she had climbed into a pit of depression and now they were together again. For a moment she forgot that Paddy was even here and that it was probably a bit awkward for their son, but she just couldn't help herself. She had felt like she would never get back to him, to be by his side, to smell him, to feel him so close, and now here Torin was, rescuing her from her captivity. She was ever grateful and ever happy to be with him again.

After a while she pulled back slightly to look to his face, her eyes bright with relief and happiness.