time

The water kissed his paws, running up near his hocks at times when it drew in quite far. It was cold, bitterly so - but it fit his mood perfectly. That was a sad fact, but one he couldn't deny. She would voice his same thoughts, perhaps it was time to leave. Seracia was not his home anymore - she was, his children were. He knew some of them may not want to make the journey, and he would not punish them for choosing to remain - but his heart was telling him to go, even if it meant leaving them behind. "I think so," he murmured, almost as if the words were foreign to him. How shocking this moment would seem had he been looking at it a few months ago. How strange it would be to think that he would ever want to leave - but alas, things changed. "I don't know where we'll go, maybe to Valhalla - maybe we'll find a place entirely our own." The future was blurred, unable to be seen, and it excited him. Seracia had grown... boring, and the future was anything but. "I love you, you know. I'm sorry I haven't said it nearly enough lately," he murmured with conviction, knowing that he hadn't been a proper husband or father lately. It seemed he'd been failing all around lately, and in that particular moment he swore to end the rut he was in - to make a new life for himself, for them.




"Speech,"