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*Recluse* · Updated 04/30/23:

Recluse Ithuriel-Klein

Despite it all, despite the worry and the guilt and the shame... When Eraithus complimented her Recluse couldn't help but chuckle, a soft almost girlish noise. How much had death changed her? The way he awkwardly fidgeted... It helped to reassure her. She gently reached a paw out to stop his ruffling his own chest fur. "How blessed it is to grow old and die with your family at your side." Her voice was soft, Recluse was keenly aware that she'd not had either of those privileges, but she didn't begrudge Eraithus it at all. She was glad, it would have broken her heart if he'd died any other way.

But as he apologized Recluse shook her head, stepping in closer. "Don't apologize." She'd told her children to live on, to not let what had happened to her control their lives. In the end that's all she wanted for those she loved. "I never gave you the wife you deserved. I regret that." She should have done more, for him, for her kids, for Sparrow... Ah.. Yes, she was going to have to bring that up wouldn't she? Recluse had never been the type to hold herself or her husband to monogamy... But how he might react to a posthumous marriage, well that she couldn't know. Still, for the moment all she wanted was to finally reconnect with her husband. "I never stopped loving you." She'd longed for him as she'd been dying, but no use bringing that up now... It would either only serve to make him feel guilty, or would show he hadn't actually cared. Both of those would have killed her a second time.

"Speech"

Art by Sirinsong

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