09-25-2010, 07:23 AM
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It was a natural part of life, but the nature of the loss was hideous and coated her heart with a hurt she had not imagined was possible to live through. Yet she had to focus on the remaining good in her life; the remaining children. They needed their mother more than ever and she believed it were them that managed to pull her through the days. Chimera was far away and she trusted in the words Damian had spoken, believed that he was sorry for what had happened. In was not in the wispy white Altester of Clouded Tears to carry hatred within her fragile heart, but she knew that she could never forgive Syliat for taking the innocent lives of children. Her children.[/html]
The sun had barely begun to climb over the horizon by the time the petite form returned to the mouth of the family den, holding a fat rabbit firmly between her slim jaws. Sleep was hard to pursuit these days and she preferred keeping herself occupied so that she did not fall into the nightmares that had managed to escape the dream and nearly had destroyed her sanity. All wounds would heal eventually, this she knew, and the remaining three children helped this process immensely. Her mate was nowhere to be seen, but she was not troubled by his absence. A beta’s work load was heavy and they had both known this when he had stepped up to assist his ivory mother in leading the pack.
Lowering the dead prey to the floor coloured rich by the dead leaves that accompanied Autumn, Colibri Soul settled near the den entrance, knowing well that some of the early birds in the litter were bound to rise relatively soon to greet a new day.