Your Little Knight

Silvano Sadira · 01-29-2011, 05:32 PM

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For Savina. &hearts

This whole affair was straining everyone, and everyone was feeling the immense tension. The pack was still, stiff even, as Artemis lay silently sleeping her strange sleep. No one knew why she still slept, but the two healers that he called his sisters all said that her body was healing while sleeping, but Silvano was worried regardless. The sleeping do not eat and do not maintain their health. Such a long time of shut eye could not possibly be good for his litter mate. What if she woke up and was too weak to do anything? She would be bedridden for even longer while her siblings and parents took care of her to get her back up to her past levels. And who knew what kind of state her mind would be when her pretty eyes opened again. Silvano's heart broke at the thought that Artemis might not wake up and be the same Artie. He hoped she would be okay, he really did, for all his annoyance toward her.

But that still left the question of what was happening at this moment, and at this moment, Savina was running the pack from her daughter's bedroom, letting Anu do most of the pack relations while she cared for Artemis. His mother was always by the girl's side, holding her hand, brushing away strands of hair, trying to do something to help, anything. Silvano had noticed how tired she looked, how worried, and how that worry might make her sick. That was not something he wanted. The Sadira youth knew he was on the cusp of manhood and it was time to do what he had to. He had to take care of his mother while she took care of his sister. It was high time he did so anyway. He had to grow up and be a man sometime. Savina had only a few men in her life, her mate, her brother-in-law, and her two sons. It was high time the second son grew up and joined the ranks of the men.

Silvano had hunted down a rabbit, rather scraggly because of the winter, but it had to do. Wrapping the skinned and gutted rabbit in a thick cheesecloth, the boy grasped the neck of the bundle as he traipsed into the library. No one was there, but he was sure they would not have noticed him come in if there had been. Instantly, he found his hands grasping Treasure Island, which he tucked under his arm, holding the meat in the same hand so he could push open doors. As soon as he got into his sister's room, the boy's look softened as his emerald eyes fell upon her still sleeping form and then on his mother sitting beside her. "Mamma, ho portato qualcosa per te." He pulled up a chair beside the woman, still holding both book and cheesecloth sack. "Ho trovato un coniglio vicino al lago. Ho pensato che si desidera qualcosa da mangiare." Silvano looked at Artemis, sadness evident in his eyes. "How is she?" He turned toward his mother, look soft as he observed her tired looks. "How are you?"

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