Back to the Place Where I Belong

It always felt like when it rained it poured in her life. She went from one high to a deep low and back up again so many times over the tail end of the fall season that she didn't really know how to keep up. One one hand she had Kane who she had taken such a huge step with by moving him into her room so they could live together permanently and admitting their love to one another in addition to Bowen finally returning home safe and putting together another missing piece of their family. On the other she had the situation with Sirius that never should have happened to begin with and Rudyard who still had yet to wake up from the coma he was in and Gwynevere getting attacked by someone claiming to be Resin's son. Her children always worried her the most of anything else in her life so for so much to be happening with them had frayed her a bit, but she was still counting the days until Artorias finally came home. The weather had begun to warm which for Auster meant that winter was here they would avoid the ice age that had gripped them this time last year.

She was lingering near the infirmary as she tended to do in her spare time these days when she heard the familiar voice of her son calling from outside the castle and her head popped up in response, wasting not a second to turn and run out of the main castle doors and through the courtyard so she could make her way out toward the plains that would put her in the direction of Boreas. A grin pulled across her lips when she saw him, relief washing over her now that he was finally home. It had been a very long season without him and she still hadn't been fully convinced that Sirius wouldn't try to keep him there or try to convince him to stay so the fact that he was back without issue made her very happy. She ran right up to him, skidding to a stop just in time to not go toppling into him as she pulled him into a tight hug. "Oh I'm so glad you're home!" she said, giving her son the kind of bear hug only a mother could give, laughing lightly while her tail wagged gently behind her.

Tamsyn Carpathius