300+ words. WotD: Ambrosial.
He saw the pain that sprung to her eyes, a mother's sorrow welling behind pools of wise blue. Vigilante did not think he had been the cause of such sadness, for it would have been much slower to arrive in such a case. He had asked after the pain she felt about losing Haven's close proximity, but the dull ache must have been there for some time, harbored within her heart and easy to slip out. He wondered if that was the way Ayita felt about Kable having left so long ago, but he could not say for certain. Truthfully, she did not seem as affected then or now as Anu still seemed to be. Was it because Ayita had never seemed to achieve a closeness to either of her children, as Anu so obviously had? The circumstances that surrounded Amaranth and Kable's birth had seemed so out of place, and perhaps they had affected Ayita's ability to bond so completely with them. He could not know.
Vigilante did not know the heartbreak of losing a child. The closest he had ever come to having children was now, having Amaranth and Ever both in the house and to care for. He supposed that even he had a closer bond with Amaranth than Ayita did. Would he feel the same pain, if either one of them were to move to a different pack, even if they remained close? It was not an entirely happy thought, but he suspected that he would not be as affected as Anu had been. He found that beautiful, how much she cared for her son, even into his adulthood. He hoped it would be similar when eh finally had children fo his own to nurture and cherish. They would become his world, or so he hoped.
"You are a respectable woman," he mused, though it had not been originally intended to be spoken aloud. Still, he was not surprised by what he said, nor was he embarrassed to have spoken it. He meant each word very sincerely. Anu was kind and generous with her time, welcoming him to the ambrosial lands of Crimson Dreams so freely and spending her day with him, a stranger prior to now.
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