Always A Reason For The Pain [INVADERS]

*Recluse* · Updated 04/30/23:

Recluse tried her best to be punctual when her members needed her, but her lagging speed this night, the fearful and panicked attempts to wrangle all her children into the den and implore them to stay in the den and making sure they were safely tucked away from the threat she heard in her uncle's call. And maybe she'd spent too much time obsessing over making sure her children were protected, blocking and covering the den entrance with what she could find to hide it from casual view, and her companions ordered to guard the children, and then she'd gone to check on her aunt.

And so she'd arrive too late, and she would never forgive herself for it, for the rest of her life. She was running, running, and then as her gaze roved over the scene before her. The snow was stained with blood, her cousin wailing in a sound that chilled her to the bone, pushing against his father over and over and over and she could tell by his own unnatural stillness that her uncle was already gone. Recluse moved without thinking her movement's mechanical until she was at her uncle's side and suddenly they gave out from under her.

She had never been particularly close with her uncle but the world felt like it had dropped out from under her. Cherry gaze closed and her face pushed into his fur, feeling the chill of his skin pressing into her own, and making the reality she'd stumbled upon suddenly feel real.

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