echoes of silence
After his first meeting with the tusked man he had thought the promise to return wouldn’t take longer than a week or two. He had risen every morning to sit upon the cliff, well back from the edge and waited. As darkness began to descend he would return to his makeshift den, catching a rabbit or two if they happened to cross paths but he often went to sleep without eating, usually for weeks at a time. As time had gone on his trips up to the cliff side had begun to feel less optimistic and more chore. He wasn’t sure at what point he simply stopped, electing to remain squirreled away in his makeshift den. He didn’t want to find himself at the edge of the cliff again and he was beginning to sink back into his own depression; knowing full well that he was more likely to fall off the earth if he made his way back to where the tusked man had once saved him. He slept more than he was awake now, hours bleeding into weeks as he wasted away. It was a warm sunny afternoon outside his den but inside Kyung’s own dreaming mind it was spring, he was a child again. The sun blotted out as a thick impenetrable darkness descended upon him. Panic filled him up just as ever breath flooded his lungs with the toxic shadows. It pressed down upon his tiny body and he tried to call out, chocking on the substance. A howl rang out for him, his mother searching desperately, but it distorted turning deeper, unfamiliar as he felt himself drowning in the ash. He gasped and lids flew open, the last fading echoes of the howl still bouncing around outside his den. A call for him? Slowly he rose to his paws and turned ebony gaze towards the cliff. The trek took longer than he expected, weak legs threatening to give out with each step and yet he pushed on, desperate to know that it hadn’t been a figment of his imagination. Then he saw it, the figure of his giant savior. "I wasn’t sure you were coming back." He rasped… it wouldn’t have been the first time someone had broken their promises to him. "Speech." |
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