Just a Dream

Max would wince as she jumped at the sound of his voice. He hadnt been trying to startle her, but knowing that he had made him feel bad. She didnt answer him immediately but rather took her time as if she were trying to remember where she was. He could hear her trying to make her breathing even once more and he could no longer see her blue eyes shine silver in the dark. He could only assume that she had closed them.

A few moments later he saw her form sift into a ball on the floor of his den. He would respond by sitting down as before she had opened her eyes again he thought she might have fallen asleep again. I will be was the answer he would receive. Her voice had made him worry as she sounded as though she was forcing the sound. A few seconds later she would tell him it was just a dream, but with the way she was talking he knew it was much more than just a dream.

His mind would twist with worry and questions as all he wanted to do was help her. He knew not how but he had promised not to ask questions, not to push the matter. He would watch her as well as he could in the dark as the ball she had formed on the ground moved into a tighter ball. Soon she would call his name in a question "Yes?" he would respond only to receive a request to talk to her about anything.

He would think a moment and many things eould come to mind. "The day I found that you had disappeared I had gone to your den to invite you on a herb hunt. I would still like to invite you on one but, I also thought you should know that I tried to find you. I followed your scent to the cave or tunnel or what ever that hole in the ground was, the strange scent I found mingled with yours had worried me." he would pause giving an apologetic look before continuing. She knew the scent he referred to but he would not ask. "When I couldnt find you I panicked, and when I still couldn't find either of your scents again I started hoping that you hadnt been taken that you had just left with this strange male but my mind wouldnt let me believe it. Constantly it reminded me that I couldnt find you, I couldnt protect you, that I had failed you.

Several moment would pass as he tried to think of somthing else to say but when he couldnt come up with any other excuse as to why he panicked words spilled from him before he coulld stope himself. "Callisto, I love you and all I could think the entire time you were away is that I might never have the chance to tell you." Maximous would wince in the dark at his own words. He couldnt believe he had let himself do that so soon after she had arived.