Although it may have seemed like Andromeda didn't hear the words of Azrael, Meryl, and Brooke, she did. She did though her body did not respond in her state. She was completely passed out, weakened from her stressed stay in Iromar. Andromeda was in a world of black, a world where no time seemed to exist and yet her ears still heard, her mind still held onto the words desperately though it was unsure if they would hold onto them properly. No, her ears may have jumbled up the words, jumbled everything around but she still heard. Part of her knew that Azrael was there to clean the second pup that she so failed to clean, her body not allowing her, though deep inside she wanting nothing more than to see her second little boy. Part of her knew Meryl did stay with her. Her stayed nuzzled into her fur, and she knew that if Meryl hadn't of been there...it would have been worse. It would have been much worse. Meryl made her stronger. He needed her and she needed him. Meryl may never know what he did that night, that his beating heart calmed her own in a time of ultimate stress. Andromeda did not respond to Brooke at all, not as one normally should. She lay completely unconscience. The whole time unresponseive in a world of darkness. She did not get to spend the precious first moments with her sons and mate. She was denied it and in the end she would blame the fact that she left her homeland. She cursed them to hell and thus she would be denied many things in life. It was the fate she had chosen for her freedom.

It was many hours later that she felt the tingle of her nerves again. The soft awareness of the limbs and mind again. The connection to her body that she was denied in haze. Andromeda felt the pain of her backside and the feeling of something next to her belly. Her tones curled but her eyes remained closed. Where was she? What had happened? She began to murmur to herself. Guardian. There was something to do with Guardian. She whispered the name softly as she shifted her head in the den. What was it? She could hardly remember. She still felt horrible, her mind fogged and body starting to tingle with pain. She felt something tug at her stomach and it was the strangest feeling. It dragged her out of her half state though. Her ears swiveled as her yellow eyes opened for the first time in the dawn. Her yellows opened so slowly, the world blurred. Scents filled her nostrils and it smelt most strange. It smelt of Meryl. Meryl and Azrael. Another strange wolfess. She lifted her head up. It felt so heavy like a large paw as pushing her back down but she knew that was not true. She searched, she searched for Meryl in her blurred vision. Her movements were slow, rigid. She was still not well, no not at all, but she was better than before with rest. She still felt the cling of tired to her body but she fought it. She knew she had to fight it. Her muzzle reach out to Meryl in and effort to lick him. She wasn't completely sure if he was even there.

Her yellow eyes could not deny the sight of Azrael though. Andromeda let out a soft and delicate whine. The pain was returning, clawing its way through the haze and becoming more sharp with every waking moment. Her eyes were soft and worried, hinted with a bit of pain. But she knew...something was different. The tug at her belly. Puppies! She had given birth last night. Yes, her mind remembered now, as much as it could.

"Starfall..." she said quietly as she lifted her head to nose the pup gently. Her mind was still not quite right but she knew he was beautiful. He was their first born and he was perfect. She caressed him gently with a lick, he squealed in reaction. Andromeda whined as her yellows fell upon the second boy, the second with dark scarlet legs. She...she didn't name him. She didn't even remember cleaning him. Andromeda started to feel horrible in another way. She was a bad mother. She had failed the second pup. Weakly her head fell next to the pup, pulling him in closer and whining to almost a cry. She was so exhausted. So tired and yet felt so guilty for not bringing this pup into life properly. Andromeda whined again and almost yelped at the sound of a puppy whine, she was not even sure who it came from but she pulled the second pup in even closer.

"I....I failed you....son I'm sorry....Azrael...Azrael....I'm..sorry," she said in a quiet whisper during her embrace with the pup. Her yellow eyes searching for him, her mate of the soul. Her yellows desperately looked for his blues, worried, confused, guilty, hurt.

"Azrael....he is Guardian...I...heard, I know, that is his name, Guardian, I know...I'm sorry, Guardian, I'm sorry," she said with a voice so weak and so melancholy. It was like she had failed the world and the stars, the universe and the gods. Andromeda felt her head become heavy again, this time she curled around the puppies, adjusting her body so she wrapped around them lovingly, though she still felt eternally terrible for what she did to Guardian.

"Azrael...I'm hurt...so......sleepy...Meryl...where is Meryl? Meryl...Guardian I'm so sorry...." she whispered as she lay her head back on the dirt. Her soul wanted to be alive, awake and with her family. But her body was demanding otherwise. She was fighting against it, and the fight could be seen in her dead yellow eyes as she desperately tried to keep them open, searching for Meryl, searching for Azrael, still in a haze but she wanted to fight it. She licked her lips, feeling thirst and knowing she didn't have the strength to quench it. She will stay awake. She will stay awake. Her puppies were here. Meryl was here. Azrael was here. She neded to be awake. For now. She would for now though her body was screaming at her, dragging her down but she would fight to spend a few more moments with them, with all of them before she was taken back to the darkness.
Seven Years - Soul of Azrael - Mother of Starfall and Guardian