Life Ain't Always Beautiful

*Zeitgeist* · 07-20-2021, 10:14 PM

The heavy thudding of paws echoed across the chamber, second only in strength to her rapidly pounding heart. Zee felt her body grow cold, anticipation crushing her like a hungry serpent coiling around it's meal. The pounding in her head grew stronger, the near-silence in the den being slowly drowned out by the ringing echoing in her ears. This was it, death's embrace was coming. The faint light that managed past her eyelids was extinguished suddenly, and she knew he was before her. Zee waited, breath hitching in her throat to be dragged from the hole.

At first, she did not recognize the voice. The name, however, drew her attention. Her captors never called her by her name - never asked - and had they have asked, she'd have surely given them her given name rather then the nickname she preferred. "Zee." The voice was pained, pained enough that the she-wolf's gaze ventured past her trembling tail and into the dim light of the den. He had turned away from her, but the distinctive markings upon his hind-end were not one she could confuse with another. "Sirius?" She whispered, still unwilling to climb from her hole. A trick of the light? A dream? A nightmare? A test, of some sort? While she wanted nothing more then to barrel into his embrace, her body froze at the sight of him and refused to leave the safety of her nook.

"Speech"

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Life Ain't Always Beautiful

Sirius

Zeitgeist