At the beginning

It had been so very long since she had come back to the falls that had been their family's first home and as she began to make a short list of things she wanted to do and places she wanted to go before her body no longer allowed her to do those things revisiting their former home was certainly high on the list. The trip she and Kane had made for her to visit Sirius had been a bit of an undertaking for her so she had to rest up for a while, but eventually she revisited her bucket list. While she knew Kane would go with her without question, she felt like this was the perfect opportunity to pull her very busy son away from his work. If there was any of her children that were just as sentimental as she was it was Artorias so this felt like the perfect trip to take together. The going had been slow, tiring out more easily than she would have liked, but her darling son let her take all the time she needed and then some so she was able to make it to the familiar falls without too much fuss. 

As they neared the falls, the sound of the rushing, flowing water immediately began to bring back so many memories. She crunched through the light layer of snow as they slowly followed along the river, her mint gaze slowly sweeping over everything wistfully. It was obvious that time had passed and the landscape had changed some from the picture she remembered in her mind, but it all still struck such a chord that she couldn't help but just take it all in quietly through waves of emotion. She was so happy to be back, but it was also a little melancholic to know that the last time she was here it was with Resin. She blinked as Art gently nudged her, pulling her out of her thoughts and memories and she retuned his smile as she looked up to meet his gaze. Tam chuckled a little at his question, looking back out to the falls in front of them as she leaned into his side. "It's... good. There's so many happy memories here and I'm so glad I get to see it again, but it also feels a little strange to be here without Resin." 

She tried to shake off the odd melancholy and kept going, following the familiar path as if she had been here just yesterday–though far slower and more carefully than she would have done back then. Her body might be failing her, but her mind was just as sharp and bright as ever. Maybe that's what made growing old so hard. In mind and in spirit she was still the young mother that was chasing trouble making pups up and down the slopes, but in body her age was very much making itself known. She made it to the top of the falls before she finally let herself settle back onto her haunches with a heavy sigh, looking out over the picturesque landscape with a wistful smile. 

"Talk" | "Carpathian"