you let her go

Lilith was just feeling herself fall back asleep when she heard claws on stone outside in the hallway. Dark ears perked and garnet gaze blinked back sleep as she looked up to the door as it swung open. For a moment she got excited that Ulric had made an early return. She was thankful she hadn’t lifted her head from her paws so the woman wouldn’t see the disappointment that crossed her features. Lilith had almost asked her father to take her along on the trip, she wasn’t sure she wanted to be without him for so long. She told herself to trust him, to know that he would come back to her.

Lil did lift her head when the woman spoke, a soft greeting at first after she lowered something to the ground. The yearling girl looked up to her curiously but there was a shyness to her that was difficult to shake off. The silver spotted girl shook her head, she didn’t mind a gift being left for her father, but it did bring up a whole slew of questions within the child’s mind. Who was this woman to bring her father surprises, was she as eager as Lil was to get him back to the Hallows?

”What did you bring him?” She asked sleepily. Her smaller form remaining curled in the plush furs of her father’s bed. Lilith could almost imagine that he was curled around her now, not that she enjoyed heavy affection like that. Ideally they would sit beside one another holding each other’s paw like he used to when she was very ill.