Once upon a time...

She kept her sapphire eyes on his face as he began to tell her about her grandfather and the pack he formed, how the Armada had been part of something called the Ashen Empire. She didn't know who Venom was, but if she was a good friend then she'd make sure to remember the name for later. All the while her eyes began to droop and they'd blink closed occasionally, but she still listened. By the time he was telling her about the beach where he grew up with an inlet and a bridge where he and his siblings would play, her eyes had closed and hadn't reopened. Her eye lids felt too heavy to open them, but she still smiled at the memory that her dad shared as she leaned her head more heavily into his soft fur. "That sounds fun, Dad," she told him sleepily, her little jaws stretching wide in a deep yawn that she couldn't fight off before it happened. She wrapped a little foreleg around his much larger one, leaning into his giant limb as she used him as a pillow. "Can we go there sometime? I wanna... see the... beach..." she muttered, her words becoming more and more difficult to understand until they finally gave way to quiet snores as she fully dozed off, deeply asleep under the familiar warmth of her father's wing.

"Wynter Carpathius"