bringing the girl home

"Speech"
There would be no complaining it semed and Recluse stepped aside to let the pair into the packlands, giving her son a soft smile as he told her to rest and then Edelweiss a nod in response to her offer. Yes, Recluse would want to speak to the girl properly soon but for now she figured it was Ghoul's show to run and she didn't want to step on his toes. Better to let him get to be the prince charming for a while before she came in as his protective mother, she certainly had no plans to scare off the young woman, and it was true that she trusted her son's judgement but, well Recluse was nothing if not protective of her children, especially right now.

The woman watched the pair of them move up the mountain, watching her son's pink form growing smaller and smaller, more and more distant and as he started to become indistingushable from the horizon she felt herself grow weaker, grow more tired. They were all growing up right in front of her and the feeling of pride wasn't quite strong enough to drown out the melancholy and grief she felt as she realized that her children wouldn't need her forever, not the way she needed them. Recluse bit back the sob that thought brought up and made her slow plodding way up the mountain towards her den, suddenly feeling older than she ever had.

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