I was headed there to where he wanted me to go. There is a brightness in me knowing that he believed in me. That maybe, just maybe, I could be the savior of someone else. There is little valor in the task I have been given but I didn't need trumpets and parades. Just knowing that another depended on me and trusted me kept my head high and tail flowing behind me. Even my lips twisted into a blithe smile so foreign to my features. I bet people thought I was austere or feral when they met me. I would have to work on that because now I had something to look forward to. A meaning ot life, a purpose. It is only as I take another step forward that my head begins to spin once more, my mind begins to churn, and my breathes pitter-patter in my chest. No, not now!
These fits had begun in the last few weeks, rapid and furious in their assaults. She had laid a curse on me. Of that I was certain! That is why she had left me in the den all alone. She had cursed me that if I left the den to escape I would fall into insanity.
A howl can be heard from the southern quadrant. It is likely another sojourner simply on a roundabout of the world and yet ice skitters across my muscles. SELINE. She would be back. In truth it could be Kronos but I do not know if he is back and I pray, oh I pray he is not. I begin to lope once more towards Diveen, trying to distract myself even as tears begin to roll down my face. I hum a lullaby I had heard once somewhere but it cuts off abruptly when I see the child. She is so small, so frail, so... delectable. My head snaps up as that word slithers into my cranium in a voice like silk and spiders. I needed to leave her... I know I have messed up some things. I vaguely recall the children in my jaws howling at me to stop, to let them down, the fear in their rigid figures, and I knew that I was being insane. But I cant help it. It is overwhelming, this need to take them to safety. I rush up to the girl and circle around her, growling and snapping at her hind end.