The crack in my foundation

Tears escaped her and streamed down her face as she continued to shove and shove and shove, frustration and desperation choking her along with the smoke around them and the smell of burning flesh. She had to save him. It was the one thought running through her mind again and again and again. She had to save him. She had to save him. She couldn't stand to lose another piece of her life, another soul that meant so much to her that it hurt. Everyone was slipping through her paws and she refused to let him go down that path too.

She didn't see him look at her, too focused on throwing every ounce of strength she had left into getting him up, getting him away from the remnants of the fire, getting him to safety. Then all at once she felt the rigidity of his body fall away and he went stumbling away from the site where Zee's remains were now broken apart. A shaky sigh of relief left her as she darted after him, wincing as she walked on her singed paws and fell to the ground beside him, panting hard between sobs that creeped up on her before it was too late for her to stop them. She turned her gaze to her best friend, seeing the absolute torment he wore on his face. Her heart was broken, shattered, for him and for herself.

Tamsyn slid closer to him, lifting his head up from the ground and managed to cradle his head against her chest, wrapping her forelegs around him as she did her best to hide him away from the deadly scene that was now at her back. She could feel his tears wetting her fur and she didn't care. She welcomed them. It meant he was here, he was alive. He was himself. That's all that mattered. "There's so many that still need you. So many of your wolves that still need you," she told him between between sobs of her own. "Asla, Mortis, Indigo, Briar, Ophelia, Gossamer, Aris, Kotori..." She began to list them one by one quietly to him while her paw gently stroked his cheek, hoping to remind him how much more he still had to live for. "Every wolf in the Armada... Resin... Me... We need you... We're yours for a reason, you can't leave us now..."

"Tamsyn" | "Blue"