It was a stark contrast, the beautiful pink and yellow flowers and Skye's own mind. Her pups were never far from her - only a week old, they were now cradled softly in her lap, sleeping soundly and peacefully. Their breathing, barely perceptible, was the only sound in the brightly colored fields. As she stared at them, Skye considered herself lucky, very lucky - but she did not feel it. Tragedy had struck too many times for the artisan pack, and she felt each like a blow to her. She was the only lucky one, the only one to have escaped her birth with no faults, no obstacles.. but it did not feel it.
Although it was truly a beautiful day, in the most colorful and lively part of her pack, her eyes filtered the beauty and saw only gray - her mind was like a wall. It was the first time she had truly left Thornbury after her birth, but the stone walls and streets still lined her mind.
It seemed as though she was powerless, powerless within her own home - the tragedies that had hit, so close together, so hard on each other - the summer was ending, signifying an easier season in the winter, but the pain that swept through the pack still lingered on the streets and paths, on the forests and the fields.
Blood stained the pack, and her own heart - foolishly she had grown close to another, to Jazper. She knew, she had known that nothing more could ever happen between them. She knew that. But for some inexplicable reason, for some foolish reason in her mind, she had still hoped. And now she was alone, alone with her young, while others were still yet together, but without the product of their love. It was cruel.
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