Tripping over Tombstones

*Zeitgeist* · 07-22-2021, 05:55 PM

It had been hard to draw forth the courage to ask him to take her home, and he'd shut her down quickly. Insisting home had changed, and she needed to know what she was going home to. It was a stupid thought - home could be a lake of fire now and she'd still choose to return there then to stay in this ravaged camp. She did not argue it further. He spoke and Zee listened, reminded of the confession he'd spilled not minutes after he'd found her laying in her nook awaiting death. This time she was more willing to listen, though the words did not hurt any less hearing them a second time around.

The admittance frustrated her, and for a fleeting moment she'd wished she'd have admitted to him the hell she'd suffered here, merely so he could see the clarity of how little she cared of whether he was safe to sleep beside. Her eyes closed again, and she felt the anger bubbling up inside her and shoved it down with as much strength as she could muster. Just when she thought the defiance had been swallowed, it spit back up again faster then she could realize.

"Okay, I've listened. Your night terrors have returned. My friend tried to force you to move on and you punished her for it. You fucked up, probably left the mark of your rage on every pack member, tree, and boulder in the plains." Zee's tail slashed through the air in annoyance, her lips threatening to curl into a snarl. "Now you listen. I don't care - I don't care where home is or what home is, because it's not here and I don't want to stay here any longer!" She didn't realize she'd started to yell, not until the echo returned to her across the snow. Her teeth gritted together painfully and she turned away from him, shutting her eyes hard to hide the tears that threatened to spill over.

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Tripping over Tombstones

Sirius

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