Haunted

*Crusade* · 05-15-2013, 11:25 AM

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(ooc: as I'm mentioning the pups in this, Shrap and Lu - are welcome to join in with them if they wish)

In the end, it?s the best that go first. Crusade had little doubt. It was a lesson that had been pounded into her again and again, by surf, by war, by satan?s lupine servants. Her bliss with her new mate and her children, could not have been allowed to stay perfect for long. She should?ve guessed it. Perhaps she had. But Crusade had never approved of allowing fear of the past or future to mar her vision of the present.

All the same it was a hard blow, as cruel as any she?d ever had to take. Dear Asheni? Yet what would the healer say if she was here? How indignant that marbled husky fae would be if she learned that now at the mention of her name, ever Glaciem head bowed sadly, or that at the very thought, Crusade?s old heart sank within her breast. The plucky healer would not have it so. She would wish for Crusade to remember her as her young and happy sister ? bright blue eyes, happy pink grin, tail wagging in a blur always smelling of sweet healing herbs.

That was how Asheni deserved to be remembered. And in time, Crusade would force herself to do so? But it was just a bit too early yet. The pain was still too hard to bear. That she would never see her again on this side of death?s veil was just a terrible, terrible truth. Her dear friend?. Her sister?

"Crusade? Its Insomnia... I came to offer my condolences and to check up on you."

At the first sound, Crusade?s head had popped up. Shame on her for not noticing the paw steps earlier. She sniffed her grey nose, and for a moment, only the side of her face with the empty socket was visible. On the other side of her face, she was blinking away tears, so that, when she did turn, the green-gold eye was waterless. The tears, rather than trickle down her cheek fur, had fallen onto her left paw, and Crusade quickly crossed her right leg over the left. There was little trace of liquid sorry ? but the look of it was still in her the back of her eyes. That she could never hide, so she did not bother trying.

Her first, unconscious wish was to send whoever it was away. Her pups lay sleeping in the curve of her belly and she could easily justify nap-time as an excuse for not wanting any sort of visitor. Yet... was she not strongest when she had to be? Perhaps company was just what she needed to shake her from her own lonely thoughts. "Insomnia," Crusade murmured, "It is good of you to visit me." She meant it. Something like a waning light of surprise shown in her eyes for a moment. She had known of the she-wolf's return, but with all her family to attend to, had not had the slightest chance of getting a good heart to heart conversation. She had been curious as to where her brave, quiet runner had been. What had brought her back? Curiousty, however, was for the idle, and Crusade's heart was too a buzz with thoughts to really be curious now. But what she did what, was to hear the voice of another trusted she-wolf.

"Come," she said in a soft tone that would not disturb her sleeping babes. "Please sit by me, I'd been meaning to speak with you for some time."

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~Because .G.i.v.i.n.g. U.p. was something I never learned to do~

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