The Angels Sang A Whiskey Lullaby

Though she had already been crying and her expression exhausted from the birth, she held herself still together until Gywnevere left the den, and once her form disappeared from the mouth of the den, she completely crumbled. Quiet sobs left her, she really was a failure. She couldn't do this final thing, this beautiful thing for Ulric. There wasn't much to explain the deaths of the living pups. It could have been the initial harm with what she had done, or the dead ones that still occupied her. The fact that she had been starving herself, or the extremely rough birth they all experienced. She couldn't know herself, but there were a number of things that went wrong. It was entirely her fault.

She quickly tried to regain herself as someone came to enter the den, thinking it was Gywnevere at first, but with a quick glance she immediately noticed it was Ulric. She broke again, almost all the strength left in her was devoted to her endless tears and sobs, and she was nearly silent as he was just standing there before her. "I'm not worth anything, I'm sorry Ulric." Her body was trembling unnaturally as feeling started to become numb and her body was reacting to the trauma it had experienced physically, maybe mentally too.

Where she couldn't find it in herself to look up at him at first, she did now, her eyes very different than any other time she had showed him the dark emotions that always haunted her. Her breath had become harsh, hyperventilating like she was running out of air. She didn't know if this was truly the end though maybe she should have while everything in her felt like it was gone, "Ulric please," her voice was broken as she struggled, nearly suffering to pass on, "Please tell me you loved me." Her head laid back as she finally felt herself truly slipping, it was the only thing she asked of him now. But if he had said anything it all it was lost into deaf ears as everything faded and went black, her faded breath whispered still through quiet and breathless tones, "Please tell me, please."

Her body had not released itself as her mind had gone, it still trembled and struggled, it was incredibly harsh in a way to think she was suffering. But in fact she wasn't anymore. She never again had to think of Tyranis, or Allegro, of her children. Of Ulric and what she had done to him. The nightmares that had plagued her since her birth were gone. An eternal darkness was her own heaven, her own blessing. And maybe she was only a little happy that the pups had died with her, because while she had other children still living, the ones that died with her would never have to suffer through their life like she did.

-Exit Aranea via Death-

"Aranea"