A Lifetime Away

Duchess could keep that light smile on her maw as Indigo had mentioned his love and knowledge over herbs and plants, all she already knew. Her issue with feeling a true happiness wasn't so much the cards dealt in life, some that she had harshly blamed on herself. But it was something she couldn't control. In time maybe Indigo could see it, but her depression had suffocated her for years. A lot of it born in her early seasons, but something she didn't know could be helped. She felt like she was stuck in a loop, reliving every bit of her misery and misdirection. But being here with him again, she did feel like she could breathe. There was a sense of security with him, even without the walls of the pack. She just wouldn't allow herself to think of him as any more than a friend all these years later, if he even accepted her as that. Maybe the way they saw each other was so clear. She just couldn't bring herself to ask, and it was unbeknown to her.

"Yeah, I've visited Elysium a couple of times, so the lands are familiar." Duchess went to move out of the little herb garden just so they weren't in closed space, not that it really mattered seeing as she stayed in his den since the death of Aslatiel. Still the beauty of the pack was worth taking the moment to admire. "I haven't stayed in one place for a long time. It can start to feel like home again."

"Duchess"