Look for the sweet summer days

Lia didn’t know how to say goodbye. She’d never had one before. She hadn’t had a chance to say it to her father, and her mothers departing snear had been anything but sorrowful. Since then, moving from owner to owner - it was just another face, another duty, another source of pain. Artorias had saved her, offered her more. More than that, her Mistress, Briar, who was gentle and kind to her, was struggling to hold back tears.

Lia felt out of place, but she wouldn’t have chosen to be anywhere else. She offered Art a smile, though it felt out of place on her lips. She rested a paw gently on Briar's back - a kind of gesture that would have been unheard of any other time, for anyone else. “I’ll look out for her.” She promised - they all knew she did not mean in might, of which she had little. But she would do her best to wipe away the Princess’s tears and keep her company.


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