OOC here: Table & Coding © James; Since the AW got taken and I figured you might want them alone for the lil heart to heart I made this; 509 words
The ruptured flesh stood out with a slash of red beneath the white coat of the girl. There were multiple lacerations lacing her thighs. There were some that were a few days older than others that appeared fresher. How had this gone unnoticed? Because Sele had become something of a hermit. She hid out until she had healed up, though she never sought out a healer, and the marks were no longer quite as noticeable through her thick white pelt. Perhaps if she were a different color then it wouldn't be seen as easily. But being white it allowed the blood from the wounds to show easily in her coat as the wounds were torn open through movement. The way she would shift about in her sleep didn't help to make healing easier, especially when she reached down to scratch at the wounds as she slept.
Her abrasions weren't close to healing yet and still she itched to make more. Her mental state was gradually getting worse. She had started to cut more frequently. Of course this had flared up as Juju had grown independent and didn't want his mother tagging around all the time. The stress of feeling abandoned was the most likely trigger. She didn't do well with feeling abandoned and no longer needed. Her children were her entire life. If she didn't have them then she had nothing at all. So far watching over Juju, and Scorpius at times, had been her greatest contribution to the pack. Sure, she had met some members at the borders but they had already been set to join anyways. She didn't do anything but sit with them and wait for her sister to arrive.
She was feeling restless and so had gotten up to leave her cave and head out to the world above ground. She headed for the foothills, heading away from the cave system to go and sit within the hillocks. Rather than sitting on the top where she could be easily seen she had rested out in the valleys between them. She laid upon the frozen earth and stared up at the cloudy sky above. She figured that it would be storming again but she wasn't one to know how to read the weather. It was just a guess though. Picking up some of the fluffy snow from the ground she placed it upon her legs to soothe the burn in a couple of the cuts. While she might looked relaxed and at peace on the outside she was a tormented mess on the inside. All she could think that even though it was daylight out now she could stay out here all night long, become frozen to the ground, and no one would ever know or care. No one would come out looking for her because they didn't need her. Her children didn't want her around anymore so what use was she? She didn't have any purpose if they were busy taking care of themselves. She had no reason to live if they didn't need her.
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