I'm really feeling the track "Time" from the Inception soundtrack :o And instant reply, whut?
She could sense fear coming from the bear, but it was still such a foreign concept that she wasn't sure if her senses were failing her or not. How could such a strong beast be afraid of her? Certainly she had been fearsome that day, but all of that fire was gone, put out. Savina was nothing now. A bug that could easily be crushed under one of those massive paws. Some small part of her almost wished for that. At least then the pain would end. Maybe, if she were to die, she would live out her dream but with a different ending. She could find Denali in the world beyond this one and apologize. Maybe he would even forgive her, even after she had failed him in the worst way.
The bear introduced itself. Savina took the name in. She had never really supposed that bears had names. It seemed there was much that she did not know, did not understand. "Savina," she returned mechanically. Perhaps Malachi knew her name already. Denali might have told her, though she of course had no way of knowing this. In some way she was momentarily comforted by the familiarity of the exchange of identities, even if nothing about this particular meeting was ordinary. Malachi seemed just as uncertain and uncomfortable as she was. There was some miniscule comfort in that as well, though really only a blip in the sea of grief that engulfed her.
The expected question after such a question came and Savina felt her throat turn dry and constricted. Her eyes looked over the bear's concerned face before dropping down to the sand. She focused intently on the individual grains as she forced the truth to come from her lips. "He's dead." The well known pressure of tears pushed at the back of her eyes and she closed them, not wishing to show that much vulnerability in front of the other creature. It was all so easy to see though, as it would be in any mother who had outlived her child.
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