all that crumbles around me

Sunset eyes gazed towards Plague’s home outside of pack lands, the crystals on her face obstructing her vision with the pulsing glow emitting from them. She didn’t even see Plague until she heard his voice. Her attention snapped to him as he approached, concern written all over his features as everything else was forgotten.

Plague fussed over her, lifting a paw to her cheek gently as he worried over the wrongness of the illness that took her. ”Plague,” she returned softly, her speech affected by the crystal growth. She allowed him to manipulate her features as he asked what had happened. She lightly shook her head in his paw. ”The curse. It's spreading everywhere. My husband, my children…” Her eyes squeezed shut, or did as well as they could through the crystals. ”I don’t know if the Empire can survive this.”