The mother daughter dance
06-20-2014, 07:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-20-2014, 08:48 PM by Zlata.)
It was midnight in the den. Gendry was asleep, his tiny chest rising and falling rapidly beside the two toned girl. Zlata had been watching him, unable to control her thoughts. The recent news of her mother's death had not come easily to her. Silver orbs would trace every lane of the cave walls, wondering if she may find an answer there. Had it been her fault? Aurora had only been trying to regain her family and Zlata had left them selfishly, unable to handle the stress caused by her feuding family. Leaving had not caused her family to get closer as she intended, it had ruined them instead. Every wandering thought came to the same conclusion; it was her fault. Zlata let a lung full of air loose from her chest and lay her chin against her front paws, glancing again at the kitten who had become so attached to her. Hadn't Aurora had a cat? Cor...Cormarin? No that wasn't it. Cor...something. He had been so kind when she was still nursing. What ever had happened to him? A part of her wondered if Gendry and Cor.....Corvusi! That was his name. She wondered if Gendry and Corvusi were somehow related. All cats were, right? As images of cats fluttered across her mind, her eyelids fluttered shut against her mother's eyes. Suddenly she was in the mangrove, watching as Australis wandered away and smelling...Aurora? Speech, |