Unforgivable

Alpine's deep rumbling would soothe her nerves, the rippling of pain over her skin would cease as he pushed his chin into her fur. Still her heart would cry out for the lost babe, her whole body would shudder in need for the tiny girl. His pale form would pull her in closer, as though he would steal away her pain simply by holding her tight. The way he wrapped around her so wholly might have made her question his feelings toward her, but all she would feel was the breaking of a kindred heart. He felt what she was going through, and would comfort her as best as he knew how. He had helped to prepare her for the birth, had brought her rabbits and small game to help her child and her arrival. It had been for naught though, her daughter had not made it through. She hated him, she hated the man who had forced the pregnancy on her. She hated that he had caused her so much grief, who had given him the power to so ruin her?


Alpine would voice to her the innocence she carried, she had not performed any atrocities to deserve this kind of loss. She had loved Fern with all of her heart, but even that had not been enough to save her tiny child. He would whisper as he nuzzled her slate covered ear, but even with his kind words she would feel the dizziness and sickness take hold of her body. She would start to dry heave, having not much of anything within her stomach already. A pitiful whine would leave her lips as her already brittle strength would be spent emptying the contents of her shrunken stomach. She would struggle to stand, her legs wobbly as she pushed herself from the den's floor to take herself outside. The pain would return as it swirled through her limbs while she moved herself into the sun's dying gaze. She would wretch again, emptying her stomach completely and collapsing onto the earth as she spent her flickering energy. Her head would swivel back and forth as she tried yet again to shake off the reality. She was in poor condition to get herself back into the den.?

She wouldn't know what to say to Alpine as she was sure he had followed behind her. She just wanted to lay there and become part of the grass, part of the earth once again. She wanted to see her daughter, and she would have were it not for Alpine's insistent affection. He would hold her back from the next world by but a thread.?