Her heart ticked, in a silence she wasn't familiar with. Though the rest of her ached. Anu walked slowly, though the worlds moved like a whirlwind around her. Two footpaws touched the fresh snow, though not deep it covered her toes like air light sand. Looking down on it she let her mind flout, wondering when it would all jut melt away. Focus, her mind scolded. Looking up at the path that led from Haven Mansion to their den. Anu hadn’t found her anywhere else, in the pass few days she felt like she had been everywhere, and not once had she ran into the fey.
Determined to resolve the conflict that resided between them, and more largely within her own soul, Anu walked with a light step. Since they had fought Anu was consistently unsettled, unnerved and unsure. But as she wandered toward the cave’s mouth it was only the muscle of her heart that was uneasy, though its beat was steady and propelled her ever further. She would need forgiveness, for her absence and her brashness, but Anu had started her own path of forgiveness. Her hands no longer clung to the image of Haven, Salem, Mati and Brooklyn as helpless children, and he no longer held her in constant fear for them.
The mouth of the cave was suddenly upon her, opening up to shallow her whole. She stopped, but only to take one last courage gaining breath. A second could hardly pass before she was moving once again. Dipping her head into the shadow that the entrance created Anu spoke, her voice even and holding confidence that surprised her.
Nani? |