11-14-2021, 05:19 PM
He’s wrong. Malik agrees with her statement even though she just barely believes it herself. Her eyes, so close to matching his, close and Sickle gives into the instinct to curl into a ball just enough to lower her small body to the ground and rest her head on her paws while she cries.
She can feel the sorrow and the tears wanting to erupt further and she knows she could lose days to weeping about this exchange and how incredibly confusing it’s been. How different from what she had hoped while also giving her a glimpse at the possibility of… well something. She doesn’t know if she’ll ever be ready to call anyone else her family but she wants the piece of it that’s standing with her.
Maybe even enough to face the rest of it.
This thought works its way through her mind, easing her sobs. She doesn’t open her eyes or stand up, just tilts her head where it’s resting and sniffs. Oblivious to his own pain, the dark thoughts and memories he is wrestling with, the small cub that is Sickle asks quietly “What happens now?”
Do they part ways? Does she come with him to Hyaline?
Whatever he thinks is best, she’ll do. She's so tired and so sad and just wants someone else to tell her what needs to happen so she doesn't have to try to figure it out on her own anymore. She hasn't been very good at doing that at all.
She can feel the sorrow and the tears wanting to erupt further and she knows she could lose days to weeping about this exchange and how incredibly confusing it’s been. How different from what she had hoped while also giving her a glimpse at the possibility of… well something. She doesn’t know if she’ll ever be ready to call anyone else her family but she wants the piece of it that’s standing with her.
Maybe even enough to face the rest of it.
This thought works its way through her mind, easing her sobs. She doesn’t open her eyes or stand up, just tilts her head where it’s resting and sniffs. Oblivious to his own pain, the dark thoughts and memories he is wrestling with, the small cub that is Sickle asks quietly “What happens now?”
Do they part ways? Does she come with him to Hyaline?
Whatever he thinks is best, she’ll do. She's so tired and so sad and just wants someone else to tell her what needs to happen so she doesn't have to try to figure it out on her own anymore. She hasn't been very good at doing that at all.
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Malik