Don't go breaking my heart

Briar was surprised by how relieved he seemed at her request and found herself meeting his smile with one of her own as he opened up his arms to invite her in. She half expected herself to be hesitant and cautious since that's all her mind ever wanted her to be since that night, but with the opportunity in front of her the desire to make things right and normal again sent that caution flying into the wind. She hurried forward and practically dove into his hug, pressing herself into his chest and folding into him just like she always had. It was so much easier to ignore that anything was wrong when she was wrapped in one of his hugs. It was similar to how she felt with Artorias hugged her to let her cry out everything that had been pent up over the days following when they discovered that her mother and brother were gone.

She accidentally bumped the side of his head with her antlers in her eagerness to find her way into his embraced and she quickly leaned her head way with a guilty grin. "Oops!" she said with a giggle. Her antlers had really grown into their full size over the last season or so and she was still learning where exactly their radius ended. Leaning into him like this, laughing about her silly antlers, she might have been able to completely forget that it wasn't just another day. She could almost forget the fresh scars on her neck. "I've missed you," she told him truthfully as she looked up at him adoringly in the way only a daddy's girl could. "I'm glad you're okay. Or, well... Getting better, at least." Perhaps he was here physically, but she wasn't certain about the other parts yet. The parts that needed to stay calm.

"Briar" | "Marigold"