take away my pain

The massive woman had never been one to ask for help or even accept it really, but when one of her younger half siblings had offered to share her home with the blind woman Zara had only hesitated for a moment. What was family for if not to help each other out in times of need? Turns out Vi wasn't a terrible den mare and whoever her brother had been had known his herbs. Even before she had added her few extras, plenty of herbs were hung drying from the ceiling and more already dried herbs were piled neatly in the corner. It smelt so much like her mothers den growing up that it had almost been painful to enter it the first few times. That mixed with the seemingly permanent scent of sulphur that hung off Vi's pelt it was almost exactly like home.

She was beginning to out on weight again thanks to Vi and because of the steady food silly she had once again begun training. Soon she would venture to the battle field again to spar but for now she tested her limits and pushed at them. She was not running yet, not familiar enough with the territory to go simply by memory as she had been with Amenti. But every day she explored the territory to familiarize herself with it. The immediate area surrounding her's and Vi's home already memorized so she could successfully defend it if needed. She put herself through old drills she had learned as a child when she had trained with her friend Zoltan under his mother Darcia. Because of those drills all that extra weight was going straight into her muscles.

Vi had left sometime in the night and Zara had already been through a full day of exercise without smelling or hearing her sister. Normally the young woman lay atop the fallen tree that served as the roof of their home in silence to watch. She would leave to hunt or patrol on occasion but normally Vi would say a farewell or something along those lines. So after a day without her sister Zara couldn't help but begin to worry as the chill of night began to set in. She retreated into the large den only to find that without her new found family it felt empty. So pressing herself into the far back corner she curled up to wait for her sisters return. "Sister...?" The words pulled Zara's head up. There was hesitance in the younger females voice that made Zara worry. There was a moment where Zara's blind eyes simply watched the girl as she stood in the entrance. It smelt of herbs out there, though with all the herbs around her in the den she couldn't distinguish it.

"What's wrong? Come in here Vi, are you hurt?" She was concerned now as she repositioned herself closer to the herbs so Vi could come lay beside her. The motherly side was takin over now even though she couldn't smell blood she knew that wounds of the mind could be just as dangerous. She had watched insanity eat away at her mothers mind, just as she could feel it pull at the edges of her own. It ran in their family and though Zara knew nothing of this female she knew that she was one of Lust's many children and that she was born the same year as Aiden and Io. Any child of Lust's was at risk, and the fact that Zara knew nothing of Vi or her brother Kyar worried her. She had been there for the births or all her siblings but somehow these two she had never seen. Had Lust secreted them away? What was their story?

Speech!