It wasn't going to be easy

*Zeitgeist* · 07-22-2021, 10:49 PM

Each new syllable he uttered pained her more. "You were dead, and I was forced to live on. Zee…” He spoke her name and she stood suddenly, tearing out from his grasp and away. She paced before him, the frustration and pain forcing her muscles to move, even when her paws screamed their complaint. "Except I wasn't dead." Zee spat back at him. "I was back there, suffering -" She swallowed her words, flinching inwardly at even the memory required to drudge up the truth. "I wouldn't have fought so hard against the males there if I'd had known, would have saved me some pain." It was cruel, hitting below the belt. Though it felt good, as if by inflicting some suffering upon Sirius that it would remove the same weight of suffering from her own shoulders.

His next words were like a knife in her heart and she grimaced, her own eyes sliding shut as she struggled to digest. "You'll survive it in the arms of your new wife." Zee replied, though the fire in her words had faded. "I'll survive it in the same way I've survived everything else." To keep away the hated, she thought of her waiting children. Yearlings now who were at this very moment, still assuming their mother was dead. She imagined their reactions to the truth, prayed they hadn't already accepted her replacement into their hearts, and vowed to heal herself through their small hearts. It was enough to keep her quiet and calm and sane, at least until they'd reach the Armada lands.

"Zee" & "Sirius"

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It wasn't going to be easy

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