Right where I belong

She felt a little bit like she was living on a cloud as she walked around with Artorias after the night they had together, living in a happy haze of joy and love. Of course she tried her best to be more subtle whenever they were around other wolves in the pack and especially whenever they happened to be around his mother - though they had only seen her once briefly so that wasn't too hard to do. They were already pretty much attached at the hip whenever she was around anyway so was it really that much of a change? She just felt herself smiling a little wider, leaning into him a bit more, grinning like an idiot any time he looked at her. Because she liked him and he liked her back. He was hers now and she was his.

After spending the day joining him on his patrols and training, she insisted on going up to the tower as was tradition whenever she came to visit. It was still one of her favorite places in the whole castle and she just couldn't get enough of the amazing view of Auster they got from up there. When they got to the staircase that would lead up to the top platform, she was surprised when he told her to go up without him, that he'd meet her there in a moment, but he didn't really give her time to protest and ran off so she shrugged and started climbing the spiraling staircase, peeking out the windows in the brick wall as she passed them.

She pushed open the trap door that opened up to the top of the tower and left it open since she knew Artorias would be coming up soon enough and went over to sit in front of the ledge that looked out over the sweeping views, a grin pulling across her lips. It was the first time she had been up here since the snow had begun to melt and now she could really see all the dips and valleys of the land, make out more of the trees in the distance, and see places were green had started to return to the world. She was so, so happy that winter was finally over.

Briar Fatalis