Rogue was elated to see Malina had come to find her. She was still convinced somewhere inside of Malina was rage and hate for what she had caused. That shoulder looked terrible; Rogue had thought she had pulled away relatively fast when she had stepped between herself and the large wolfess. She did not really care who she was, only that they just kept their distance from now on. Rogue gave another tender lick of the wound. It was clear it was deepest and most likely the most painful, but having them clean was not enough to make them heal in any sort of speed. She was worried about her, and her dismissal was not something she felt like dealing with so easily. She could tell she was not worried for herself, but Rogue was worried for her and she would drag her kicking and screaming all the way back to Diveen if it meant she would be met with experienced Healers. Even if they attacked Rogue for being on their lands, which they had all rights to do at this point.

What Malina was saying was more than confusing. Let someone get close to her? How could she have stopped that. ”You mean that grey wolfess? It was not your fault she attacked me, I was running on my own, much smaller and an easy target for someone of her size. It is hardly your fault for her choosing to pick me. You cannot control others’ mind and determine their actions for them. You’re worrying over nothing, Malina. This was your taste of war and you surely you have learned that even the kindest creatures can turn into the most vicious of beasts during battle.” It was the hard truth, Rogue was not going to sweeten it up for her friend. She need to understand that none of these wounds were her fault, though Rogue could not say the same for Mal’s. She could not have controlled the other demons, but she could have warded them away.

Lucky for Malina she had a very protective Rogue on her now. She would see her to a good healer. The cinnamon hooded female was getting the idea that Malina was not angry with her, she was not sure why, but she was greatful as the female had stated as such. Rouge could hear Malina’s honesty in her tones as she said she could not hate her. That was settled then, and Rogue would not be letting her out of her sight from now on. Even if she did she would be her shadow, protect her from whatever bothered her even if it meant her dying. Though Mal was nearly begging Rogue to hate her, she couldn’t help but laugh, the laugh had to hurt more than the licking, but she could not help it, it was too funny. This whole situation, only Mal was much more brave than Rogue had been.

”You are being quite funny today.” She said moving forward and embracing Mal, ”I could never hate someone who has stolen a part of my heart from me. I never expected to find someone so dear to me when I arrived three years ago on a mission from Hell.” She said laughing again. She needed to get back to being serious, and that was being Mal’s wounds.T hough she was still stressing out so much about Rogue’s own two little bites on her body.

”Mal I have survived much worse in my life. Can we see you to a healer now before I drag you to one? I will not let you treat me until you get taken care of. At the very least, you can tell me what plants I need to use on you and we get you patched up a little. But you are still going to someone who has proper training for healing.” She gently nudged Mal under the chin with her muzzle, much as she did with her brother when she tried to get him to do as she wanted and he was being stubborn.

She waited for Mal to either complain or give orders, Rogue wanted to tell her about Heartless being gone and leaving that gaping hole inside that was still eating her despite the slight healing by having Mal and not angry with her. So instead of being a fully broken wolf now she was just half broken. A soul could not be healed though, and Rogue knew she would not be graced with another wolf to take her soul, nor did she want one. She just hoped Malina would never have to go through all of this turmoil.



XxBreaks No HeartxXDestroys Heartless’ SoulXxCreator of Magnus and AlchemyxX