I'll dissolve when the rain pours in

He did not expect the desperation that held down her tones, that shook her body and crushed her spirit. He trembled again, this time with all that her words held. Her Themo.. was... was dead? How could that be? He did not understand, here he had thought she had gone to him. He trembled, his paws seemed to betray him with their instability. His world didn't make sense any longer. Could it be that she had not chosen him over Alpine? Could it be that this entire time he had been.. dying... he shook himself free of the terrible thought and back to the present, of the pitiful image of his best friend with her world gone from around her. Crucifx had left her? That seemed unlike him with the protective nature he had held over his sister. Could it be that she was now truly alone...



?Shhh? he whispered as allowed his legs to give way beneath him and crumbled softly against the sand beside her. From here he would curl up around her as he had a thousand times before. All the time between them, the month he had been away fell away and it was as through she had always been there, beside him. He would close his eyes against her coat, breath in the scent of her and a thrum would start inside of him, a tingling of his muscles and every part of him that touched her. It was so hard not to tremble, with the fire of all of her about him, with her intoxicating scent.



She would ask of him for water, and he would groan as he pulled his head from the softness of her coat, and struggled to unwind himself from her frail body. He didn't want to leave her, the resistance his body gave him to stumble from her side was evidence of that. ?Do you want me to take you to water or bring it back to you?? he whispered through husky tones.