WC: 418
Being complete, having one's soul made whole by the presence of another. It was not just the King's spirit that shared this need for Ruri's presence. Her mate, the calm, Heath Morte dre Soul had confessed a similar need for her. Even though Jac had never, verbally, expressed his need for her, Ruri knew that Jac would always need her, just as Heath now needed her. This was in part because she needed both men in a similar fashion. They were her strength, her joy, and the beings that she could see the clearest in her own special way. She liked to think she knew as much as anyone would ever know about either of them, though this was likely not the case. Their personalities, their struggles, their triumphs, Ruri had learned them all from the amount of time she had spent with the both of them. They completed her, and yet she had yet been able to get the two of them to stand in the same room without any sort of tension flowing between them. The sensitive collie girl desired nothing more than for her two closest loved ones to be friends. She wished to one day be able to spend time with both of them, enjoying life as an inseparable group, when they would all be as they should be, made whole by the presence of one another. However, these were the naive dreams of a naive, innocent mind. Whether they would ever be realized only the Fates knew.
Her song ended, the alabaster and slate luperci slowly slipped back into reality from the ethereal world she entered in her singing. Her eagerly awaited answer from Jac made her smile so wide that she had to close her pupil-less eyes to make room for such a sweet expression of glee. His compliment, combined with his own signature gesture of his affection for her, ruffling her ears, made her cheeks flush timidly. She appreciated that Jac loved her singing, but such exaggerated comparisons left the humble girl feeling that she did not deserve them. "I wouldn't want you to chase away all the birds. That wouldn't be nice. Music is meant for everybody to enjoy, and I think the birds were singing long before I started. It wouldn't be fair to banish those who originally developed such a wonderful thing as singing," she replied, giggling at her own reasoning. Jac would likely find her excuses amusing, but she believed that they were right just the same.
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