[/html]Her body was slow to move, but Anu was not hesitating in her desire to leave Colibri’s presence. She wanted to run away, and having said enough to allow her a fairly polite departure she felt it time to remove herself from such a stressful situation. Yet the darker hued woman would not allow her to go without a few last words. Colibri did not know how strong she truly was and she threw the piercing hooks into the other fey without any obvious restraint. She spoke of Alder, the name causing Anu to turn her head to face the female once more.
Anu was silent, looking at the female and wishing she knew why she did not just allow Anu to leave. Why did she need to do this? Why did she need to bring up the hardships of the past? Why did she have to bring Anu pain that she thought had disappeared?
Of course Alder had been kind, her masked son was the sweetest of her three and he had such a gentle demeanor. Anu almost believed it to be a grace that had been bestowed upon her timid son, a blessing that made him able to sense the heartache of others and want to relieve it. Such a thing would promise him a long life of being let down, but she knew that he would feel love as she did. Unbridled.
She did not have words to speak, unsure why Coli was even telling her this when it was so apparent that Anu needed to be dismissed. But Coli did not know her own strength, the power that her weak form held over one that desired to help others. Then when her voice grew piercing and she spoke of her own young Anu grew even more confused.
The silver wolfess felt the impending need to shed the building tears that she held in her blue gaze. The questions that she had for Coli were threatening to pour from her mouth, but that would only bring her closer when Anu so desperately wanted to pushed her further away. This was not her battle, and Anu hadn’t asked to take up the task of caring for Colibri nor her pups. Anu had Tayui now, she had a grand love that she now knew she needed to profess and claim.
Where the puppies came from Anu obviously didn’t know, and she didn’t wish to imagine the horrific means by which they were conceived. She hoped to the gods that her assumption wasn’t right and Coli’s black streak of ill luck had ended and she had been given her daughters with a small dose of love and caring. Yet there was something she saw when looking at Colibri that caused her to think the worse.
Anu would not ask. She looked away, the emotions surging powerfully beneath her skin and the pain making her words uneven and forced. I will tend to them as any Vináttan would. Cold harsh words were necessary, and nothing would make her feel right about them. There was nothing slow about her retreat, her lithe form galloped through the wood of Vinátta and she did not look back. The wolfess refused to look back.
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