12-03-2008, 03:25 PM
She was unsure of how to process the information but in the end it didn't seem to matter, Laruku seemed uneffected by the news he was giving her. Why should he be surprised though her mind argued, he knew he had kids, had known for a while now she safely guessed. Her eyes flickered off to the lands where he said the had grown up in, though something once again commented on her train of thought, how Inferni probably was the old Inferni, not the new one. Still somehow in her mind they were the same.. just because the land had changed hadn't meant the souls had.
Iskata should have left it there but these new souls she'd never known about were raising questions like fleas, and somehow they were drawing away the pain of knowing she'd never see her young one grow to be an adult. "What are their names?" She realized as she asked that he had more than one. Did that mean there were still others unnamed, unknown still out there somewhere. He said they were no longer in Inferni and she wondered why, yet that didn't last long. She laughed suddenly, a strange sound at a strange time.. but all it brought was a wistful bitter comment at the end. "Always were just a bunch of drifters.." Clouded Tears, Inferni, Phoenix Valley, Dahlia De Mai.. did it matter in the end.. they would all just drift away on the wind, like ashes, a feather or just like the dandelion's seed. Her own would probably be the same, there was no point in even wondering anymore.
"Are you going to drift away too?" she asked mildly. She knew the answer, but then again somehow Laruku had always been a drifter, even when he was tied to the lands he'd drifted, in circles, on winding trails that always lead back to the beginning.. but he'd drifted just the same. Iskata had come to be content in the stories of far off places that were brough tto her now, still an eye was turned to the distant lands but no longer did her paws want to follow the same old path. She'd given up on believing there was truly something out there, it was all here now.
Iskata should have left it there but these new souls she'd never known about were raising questions like fleas, and somehow they were drawing away the pain of knowing she'd never see her young one grow to be an adult. "What are their names?" She realized as she asked that he had more than one. Did that mean there were still others unnamed, unknown still out there somewhere. He said they were no longer in Inferni and she wondered why, yet that didn't last long. She laughed suddenly, a strange sound at a strange time.. but all it brought was a wistful bitter comment at the end. "Always were just a bunch of drifters.." Clouded Tears, Inferni, Phoenix Valley, Dahlia De Mai.. did it matter in the end.. they would all just drift away on the wind, like ashes, a feather or just like the dandelion's seed. Her own would probably be the same, there was no point in even wondering anymore.
"Are you going to drift away too?" she asked mildly. She knew the answer, but then again somehow Laruku had always been a drifter, even when he was tied to the lands he'd drifted, in circles, on winding trails that always lead back to the beginning.. but he'd drifted just the same. Iskata had come to be content in the stories of far off places that were brough tto her now, still an eye was turned to the distant lands but no longer did her paws want to follow the same old path. She'd given up on believing there was truly something out there, it was all here now.