A valley between us

Lillith didn’t intend to startle her brother, she was no threat to her family for sure. The only one that needed to look out was Roman, as she’d kicked his butt twice in spars now. Lil wouldn’t dream of hurting Emile and she withdrew a little herself as he ducked from her greeting. He looked downright ashamed as his emerald eye looked up to her, and she tried not to see the terror in him. Emile was a much different wolf since their last talk before the long dark.

She couldn’t comprehend the possibility that he could be holding the events of her life against her. Lil didn’t know when she met Roman just how essential to her life he would become, nor would she understand the jealousy her brother would hold for that fact. Romulus made her happy, he brightened her life like no one else, it didn’t occur to her that that brightness did not reflect on those around her. She didn’t realize that warmth would be ice to Emile.

Her brother inverted into himself as he greeted her in return. He looked small and broken, and Lillith wasn’t so certain how to react. ”Are you okay?” She chalked up the distance between them to the effects of the long dark and the illness that gripped the Hallows. Not that she had found her other half in Roman. ”Do you need anything?” Lil continued softly, her slate speckled ears folding her to skull timidly.

Lillith Adravendi