Say Goodbye

Instantly the large ears of the pup rang with pain as her sister's unanticipated exclamation echoed through her skull. Armai's ears fell flat against her head, her giddiness trickled off into confusion and her bouncy movements became slow and unsure - perhaps Zola just didn't like her tumbling? That was okay, Armai didn't want to upset her sister further and so going without a bit of rolling was fine by her. "Sorry!" gurgled the child, her short milk-tipped tail wagging eagerly behind her, "I didn't knew you didn't liked that!" Her words retained their excitement, failing to mirror her now hesitant movements and confused mentality. Her blatant disregard for proper tense and word structure shined as she spoke, the mistakes adding a certain charm to her - but surely to Zola they only made for another ugly annoyance. Hopefully one day she'd grow out of it.

Armai waited patiently then, her little face upturned in the direction of her sister - though she obviously could not see her. Despite how clear it had been to her brother, and to her father and possibly her 'new' mother, her elder siblings dislike for her remained cloaked and disguised. Armai's naivety, innocence and perhaps her wishfulness kept her blinded from the hatred burning within her half-sister's heart, menacing and threatening and a clear warning of STAY AWAY - every sign remaining unnoticed by the fae child in favor of hoping that one day her siblings would simply stop acting so strange and play with her...

But life would continue to be cruel as it seemed Zola would never accept her, though to Armai this had yet to be discovered. Calder continued to drift from her and she had yet to truly bond with any of her family members beside herself - even that mother of hers, the one that had broken Mai's heart, the one she had tried so hard to bury in the fluffy happiness that was her imagination, had abandoned her.

Focusing in on reality brought Mai back to the situation at hand - her infuriated sister and herself in a warm metal room on a large ship frozen into the snow. The child took advantage of the silence to question her sister, attempting to initiate what she hoped could be bonding, "Wha's wrong? Did you had a bad day?"