Out On Your Own

She couldn't fully relate to what the empress suggested. Duchess was always running it seemed. Mostly after her deception and then loss of the babies, but more so now that she was no longer with Indigo. She didn't really have a place to call home, so finding a getaway was probably no the best term for coming out on the island. She was running, but she was also searching. And Venom just happened to be at the same place at the same time on more than one occasion. Duchess didn't hate the fact.

They moved along towards the sounds of falls, the river widening and narrowing in different shapes and sizes as they went on. "The river is much more pleasant than the caves." Duchess spoke, having noted that she had been here at least once before. "That is unless you like cave dwellers. And by that I mean bats." They would soon come to a pool where one of the falls flowed down, Duchess took a drink of water but hadn't planned on staying on the islands long. Venom wasn't bad company, but not the company she was expecting. Or at least she thought for now.

"Duchess"