She hadn’t wanted to see the wolves that lived here, not really. Yet as she became she aware of the earthy toned male she was still rooted to the spot though her whining may have reached a new pitch. Once the site of the somewhat imposing man with the odd thing upon his head would have been cause for excitement and a potentially unwanted outburst of friendliness… now it was just another reminder of all she had lost. These lands, her father’s lands were gone… just as he was.
She was not prone to tears but dammit was she close to it… He appeared to speak and she could not bring herself to watch, his words falling upon literal deaf ears. It wasn’t fair, it wasn’t fair! They had been good, they had been strong and Keiki had believed, perhaps naïvely, that they would last forever… after all they were as unmovable as Rune himself… well it turned out with him gone they were about as unshakable as a sand structure.
Another wolf approached and Keiki glanced up. It was a blessedly familiar form and she felt some relief wash over her… though it struck her that he was approaching from within the pack lands… it struck her with a vague sense of betrayal that whoever had claimed these lands had some tie to the sunny male she had met previously. This time she paid attention to words spoke, gleaming her name from the movement of his lips and the question of her emotional state.
She dropped her gaze again, preferring to risk missing more speech than to have to face the two wolves. She wanted them to be villains, wanted the people who had stolen her home from her to be bad guys… it made justifying her emotions easier… "Sol…" She croaked, barely audible. Possibly the quietest thing the girl had ever uttered in her life.
"It’s gone…" This time she spoke in her normal tone, slightly wonky and just a bit too loud. Then her next words were practically a scream: " He’s gone!"
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