Are with us as we go on

Of course her father could understand how difficult it was to watch children grow up. He'd done it twice so far and was in the process of doing it again. It wasn't easy to watch them turn into adults and it definitely wasn't easy to send them out into the world, that was for sure. Yet, as she had taught her own father, you had to let go at some point.

Sirius leaned in and placed a kiss to her brow and suddenly Aslatiel was that small pup again, watching the stars with her father through the looking glass that he'd found for her. She felt... shame. Grey ears tucked back against her skull as he asked if she was happy. Asla nodded silently, then released a long sigh and shook her head. "I'm sorry to have been such a brat, Dad. I just felt so overlooked and I was so angry back then. It felt like, no matter what I did, Azure was the golden child and he was all that mattered." Then she laughed softly, the grin on her maw pulling at the scars on her face. The very scars that she'd received protecting their home. "He's a bit of a dick, isn't he." It wasn't really a question. "I'm sure he hates me now for confronting his fish wife." Asla shrugged lightly. "Can't please everyone."

"Earth" & "Stars"