The child's tenderness was warming. Though she did not know the emotions she stirred within her cradle, X'yrin felt there was a part of her instinct that knew her touch was needed. The Nomad was left to simply wonder about the child... about her own childhood so reserved from this kind of affection. She hadn't hated her upbringing, but seeing how the kindness one could give to an infant, she felt robbed. She did not want the little Sarian devoid of her affections as she had been.
Shiloh called this love, as if it were the cure-all answer to her emotions. The Nomad could not contest it, for there was nothing for her to put up as an argument. This... what she was feeling, could have very well been love and she still wouldn't have known it fully. All she wanted for the tiny being was what she had not had... what she wanted and still craved.
But she had had that touch of affection, hadn't she? Was that not what the voice was screaming to her? She had been touched by something as profound as this then was suddenly robbed of it in the dead of night. Days without felt like an eternity when it was the likes of this that she craved dearly. The woman felt herself shake, a subdued rage building within her. In a swift motion she curled the blanket around the pup then gently passed her to her mother, ignoring the soft cries of protest from being deprived of a warm body. "I am sorry," she said hastily, her voice trembling with yet to be seen rage. "I must go."
She clicked her tongue for the resting bird to take flight again as her overseer. A bath in the river could wait. Right now she needed desperately to be alone before her actions got away from her. She stood suddenly, her lengthy limbs taking swift stride from the pair back toward her enclosure within the forest. Before there was much distance between them, the woman did stop, tilting her head slightly back to address both mother and child. "Thank you." She didn't even know for certain what she was thanking them for, but it mattered that she knew they heard her words.
Following her companion, she left without another word.
[X'yrin Exit]