set a day (or so) after Anu&Coli seeing each other.
[/html]Anu walked into the small house. It was dim, as the burrow of a home would be. She thought about taking one of the bees wax candles that Cypress had made and lighting it, but the use of such precious materials did not seem fit to be wasted upon her mood. Anu was confused, questioning things that she had known for a long time and wondering if this journey had really been worth it. Blue eyes looked at the fabric wrapped bundle, but decided against the little bit of light. She could stay in the darkness.
For the last day or so she had been distant, quiet and reflecting on the meeting she had had with Colibri Haki. In such a short time span it was easy to avoid Tayui, the pack lands were vast and she had been able to muster small conversation and even a smile when she had come home the night before. But it wasn’t easy to avoid her emotions, and to keep them from the other woman. They had come to the point where Anu was happy to speak her thoughts before the white woman, she was happy to have someone that could listen even if her words were a bit pointless or silly. Tayui hadn't judged her, not yet.
How could Anu tell her about Coli? But how could she not? The pain of it was ripping through her at a devastating rate and if Anu did not let it out it would consume her. Or worse, it would push Anu back to the dark colored woman and demand that she give Colibri her entire being once more. Memories were threatening things, they tried to reach out for her and drag her back into the same painful experiences that Anu promised herself she would never put herself through again.
Anu was grateful for one thing; she knew what she wanted. Despite the encounter with her past lover her heart had not wavered in it’s loyalty to Tayui. It lived confined inside her chest and she had not spoken of her commitment but it was there and Anu would not betray it. Now, she knew she needed to say it. Say all of it so that she did not betray Tayui in the least. She could not wait, or allow things to develop slowly as they had been. It left them too fragile and exposed. Their relationship was nothing like the one Anu had once had with Coli, it was a healthy partnership and she would do anything that needed to be done to keep it that way.
The wolf seated herself on the makeshift bed that they shared, and waited.