blanket of stars

She was on her own for now, having left her brother soundly sleeping in the serpent plains with the rest of their begrudged family. She still wasn't happy with them staying here, but until Ullr was better she would remain and take care of him as much as she could, just like always. Restlessness had overtaken her mind, so she was out wandering now. She had come to a delta, quiet and peaceful in the dead of night. The barest sliver of the moon was hung in the sky above her head, and it was a rare, cloudless night. The stars glittered overhead, watching silently and keeping their judgements to themselves, just how she liked it to be. The tri shaded femme was wandering, letting her mind come and go as freely as she was. She still desired to return home, despite the looming threat of Vili if they did.

The thing was, she wasn't afraid of Vili. She knew his limits, she knew all the hideaways there were in the territory, while he did not. She knew he would rather beat on her than her brother, because her silence infuriated him and she was always the one that fought back. So it didn't matter, because even if he ripped her hide from her body she would probably have ripped his eye out in response. It was all okay there, she could take it. But here, in this strange land, she didn't know how far everyone was willing to go in punishing her, punishing her sickly brother. They could slowly tear her limb from limb, but she would never know, and there would be nothing she could do to stop them.

Secondly, back home she knew where to go to find food, where the rabbits burrowed and the shrews came out to drink from the stream. She could find them, kill them, bring them back for Ullr. However, here everything was conveniently hidden away, leaving her helpless and relying on the strange men who were trying to care for them. She was forced to let these brutes, who claimed to be relatives, cousins, feed her like she was a child. She was not, she had taught herself to hunt all on her own and taken the best care she could manage of herself and her brother.

Silently her rump would fall to the terra, her breath escaping her ebony jaws in a puff of silvery mist. Her icy gaze would drop to a quartet of broad alabaster paws as she wondered how the hell she could have gotten into this mess, and how it could possibly get any worse. She'd have to track some of the deer herds now, navigate the lattice work of mouse burrows beneath the snow in their home, find out the lay of the land. She needed to be prepared for when Ullr needed her, as he always did. It was all she did, all she needed to do, was take care of him. It was her rightful duty, as his last remaining family, as his self titled guardian. She hadn't ever done anything else, and that was completely fine. Ullr's purity was something worth caring for, his innocence something that seemed to make up for the horrors of her life.

"Speech"