Hours Left Behind

True to his word, Cerberus did eventually take some time off so that the two of them could spend time alone and Ruse was very happy for the chance to both go out and explore and to be alone with Cerberus. She had grown quite accustomed to having the den alone with Cerberus, but with Scylla’s return and with her and Albion joining them in the space it did make the cave feel a bit more cramped. She loves her siblings and the good news Scylla brought about their father was such a relief, but she did kind of wish it was just the two of them in the space again.

She could at least take advantage of this time she had with Cerberus to get his one on one attention. They found a point to cross the river as they moved north and she grinned a little as he offered his help to cross. Even though she didn’t really need it, she still accepted the help regardless because it was just a sweet thing that was very Cerberus. The further north they walked the colder it became, the winter weather exasperating the cooler temperatures of the region. “Agreed,” she replied to Cerb’s comment about missing the tropical isle they were raised on. She often missed their former home, especially when it was as cold as it was now, but she was adapting better to it than she originally would have expected.

Once they were past the river that ran along part of Elysium’s border, Cerberus gestured for her to take the lead and earned a playful glare from her as he called her “princess”. Striding forward as she chose a direction, she eagerly took in the sights of the north from the tall evergreens to the rocky cliffs that dropped off toward a cold looking shore at the bottom. She didn’t have a particular destination in mind, she simply let a path open before them and followed it. Eventually that brought them to the edge of a huge valley where the water from the ocean had moved inward and she stood at the edge of the cliff looking down at the Polar Sound with a fascinated grin. She started looking along the edges, looking for a spot where they could get down to the bottom and her answer came in the form of a ridge that formed a natural path. “Over there,” she said with a gesture of her paw before starting to work her way down carefully.

"Rusalka Alondra Klein"