Shadowmere
09-07-2025, 06:57 AM
I’ve bled for less, for sure, then best…
Those eyes….those piercing green feline eyes. One moment Havelock was standing there, and the next it was Naga. A visage so perfect, save the male voice booming from her lips, and each word slammed into her with such force that she was wholly taken aback. Her gasp squeaked into her lungs, eyes wide with shock. The mare she had garnered so much hate and jealousy for prowled forward with rolling shoulders like the feline predator she was. She wanted to strike her down right there, stain the shimmering white snow with her blood like she had yearned to do for years. She dreamed of the moment she could sink her teeth into the panther's throat, but it was that male voice emitting from Naga’s lips that made her hesitate. Shadomere thrashed her horned head wildly as she was forced to step back from Havelock's advance, wailing at the top of her lungs into the frigid air. ”No! NO! You left me! YOU ALL LEFT ME!”, she threw herself at him as he shifted back and his softened words choking her with foreign emotions as she bit into his shoulder with enough force to break skin. She didn't want to believe it, she wanted to hate all of them. Even if she had left him and Falljoy like he claimed, even if all the others left her…Havelock came back.
The soft blue and bay shapeshifter was the only one of her children that not only came back to her, but had the strength to stand against her and used his power to manipulate her as she had always done to him with words. Her fury simmered to a strange feeling of pride mixed with absolute loneliness. She continued to wail as she pressed herself against his bleeding shoulder, the sound of his pained and rapid breaths so loud in her ear. She flinched at his touch as his muzzle gently stroked her withers, never knowing a truly affectionate touch in over a century, not since the loving touch of her mother. Never before had she felt such a wave of emotion, never had she released the years of pain and resentment she held within her. Each wail started to ease the ache in her heart, all the while Havelock stayed beside her, gently nuzzling her, letting her have this moment. Was he truly loyal to her? Or was this pity? Her emotions whirled and she was not sure how to comprehend so many mixed feelings. It was the first time in what felt like her whole life that she actually felt anything other than pure malice and it actually scared her, but maybe, just maybe…she could trust in her shifter son to not leave her like the others. To stay here with her in the slumbering Chamber forever.
The soft blue and bay shapeshifter was the only one of her children that not only came back to her, but had the strength to stand against her and used his power to manipulate her as she had always done to him with words. Her fury simmered to a strange feeling of pride mixed with absolute loneliness. She continued to wail as she pressed herself against his bleeding shoulder, the sound of his pained and rapid breaths so loud in her ear. She flinched at his touch as his muzzle gently stroked her withers, never knowing a truly affectionate touch in over a century, not since the loving touch of her mother. Never before had she felt such a wave of emotion, never had she released the years of pain and resentment she held within her. Each wail started to ease the ache in her heart, all the while Havelock stayed beside her, gently nuzzling her, letting her have this moment. Was he truly loyal to her? Or was this pity? Her emotions whirled and she was not sure how to comprehend so many mixed feelings. It was the first time in what felt like her whole life that she actually felt anything other than pure malice and it actually scared her, but maybe, just maybe…she could trust in her shifter son to not leave her like the others. To stay here with her in the slumbering Chamber forever.
~ s h a d o w m e r e