long time coming

*Hanako* · 03-21-2023, 01:46 PM

Hanako made a soft, almost whimpering sound of acknowledgement. She knew what had happened, in the same way a baby learned to shrink away from a limb that intended to strike them. Instinctual yet somehow learned, known but not something to speak aloud. Her eyes were hooded, having lost the sheen in them that had once lured in so many wolves. They were like cold ice now, lifeless like a dead fish. Was she in shock? Oh certainly, and the pain had a way of making everything seem all muddled and wrong. Like it would be a mercy to just have it all fade away, like it was all a bad dream. And yet the wolf who was before her spoke so gently, so kind, so different from what she had known.

She shifted a little at the request to drink this, whatever this was. Her tongue felt heavy, too flappy when she tried to lap it up. Uncoordinated, like floppy, melting string cheese. But she tried and felt some taste upon her tongue, not sweet like the teas Azure had his slave give her, ones she quite liked the taste of. But it was hard for her to stir up any emotion other than exhaustion, a withering sense of defeat that dripped from her like blood.

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