Say Something...

*Ghoul*

It was almost impossible for Ghoul to comprehend what was happening. Was he dreaming? His mother confirmed that he wasn't dead, but then how was he holding her now? Even as he leaned back to peer into her cherry eyes to see those tears prickling. This surely had to be a very real dream and nothing more. In a way, that broke his heart. To know that he would wake up and possibly never see her again. The tears rim his eyes even more now as he continues to embrace her. Unwilling to let her. Nothing would pull him away from her now. He would give anything to have her back.

Recluses's reassuring words did little in ways of give him any relief. Even as she whispers I love you, he felt his chest hiccup and his throat tighten. Why did it have to be her? Why couldn't it have been someone else? She had done nothing to deserve this fate!

"Mama," he whispers again into her fur as she begins to pull away from him. Leaning back once more, hoping she would stay as close as possible, he looks at her. There is pain in not only his gaze but hers. He can see how much she loved him, loved all of them. No one was perfect, but to Ghoul, Recluse had been. She had been motherly, loving, there for him, a leader, a guide, someone to rely on and confide in. She had also believed in him and he had gone and fucked it all up. If maybe he had taken his future seriously, he wouldn't be in this position with her right now.

Before he could dive into the turmoil of his thoughts, she was speaking. He trained his gaze on her, nearly unblinking as he listened. The boy knew what she meant when she explained not want to leave Imp behind. After Kali and... it was things that even Ghoul didn't want to linger on. His face wrinkled, begging his own emotions to reign themselves in as she continued on. This woman that she spoke of would see his revenge. Would know the pain that she inflicted upon his mother. Whoever it was, he would find her. Ghoul could feel the rumble of fury begin to build in his chest before he blinked and then...

Standing in front of him was not his mother, but the image of a bedraggled woman with her throat torn to shreds. Blood poured from the wound staining her beautiful coat many shades of pink. Ghoul's eyes widen as his mouth drops open. Once he blinks again, she is back in the form that he remembers. Sleek, shimmering, and beautiful. Sucking in a breath, he shakes his head with his eyes squeezed close. No, no he had not seen that.

"You cannot say that," his gravelly tones are but a murmur as he lifts a paw in an attempt to lift her chin. "We should have been there for you. I should have gone after Imp," Ghoul's voice becomes terse as he clamps his teeth together. So where was Imp now? Viscera? The rest? His ears fold back as he tries to touch his paw to her cheek. "You have never failed me as a mother. I-we all miss you every day," Ghoul whispers softly as tears finally roll down his cheeks.

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