Alone

His eyes... raw and red. His grief... palpable and all-consuming. He lifted a paw and she let him gather her into him. She was placed snugly between his mighty arms, her chilled damp fur warming against his. His head pressed into her chest, she ran her golden paws over his head, and through his fur. Stroking each ear as he cried. His wet tears soaked into her coat.

She was here, she had nowhere else to be. Though... There was a tug to check in on Spider... but she didn't know how much they knew, maybe seeing her was the last thing Spider wanted. She sighed, trying to ease her own heart from breaking, rending into a million pieces, he needed her here, whole, comforting. The future was going to be... the future. Suddenly the future wasn't as bleak and mysterious and terrifying for her. Trying to balance serving him and keeping other needs at bay from them both was an act poised to fail sooner or later. She knew that. Now that this had happened... They can work on whatever came next... later.

"Ignita"