| It felt strange to be here again. His parents had moved on to the next life, his little sisters had decided to roam elsewhere, and now all he had left was Samia. With the turning of winter into spring, the male had become an adult, but he hardly felt like one. Zephyr barely even knew who he was anymore. Everything had shifted and changed in his absence, and his sister was not entirely like the sister that he had left. He supposed that he hadn't realized just how long a couple of years could be, he certainly hadn't expected things to change so drastically. Zephyr wasn't sure what he had expected upon his return. Perhaps, deeply, he had hoped for it to be a time capsule, a perfectly preserved copy of how everything had been for him as a child.
But even as a child he had known that nothing ever worked out quite how he wanted it to. He rested his head on his paws, though his eyes remained open. For now he was staying with Samia but he was no child, not anymore. Zephyr had survived on his own for so long but now that he was home, he clung to the sliver of his life before he left. The den and his sister, they still existed but everything else was just a memory, a scent he could barely remember smell, a touch that he could only feel in his dreams. He sighed, not understanding why he was hung up on his childhood all of the sudden. Perhaps it was because he assumed that he would have all the time in the world, as a child he hadn't understood the idea of growing up, the idea of change.
He doubted that any child could understand those concepts, but he was an adult now. Why did comprehending them seem so insurmountable now? Zephyr grumbled something to himself and then pushed himself to his feet, shaking the sand from his fur and heading down closer to the ocean. The sound of waves and gulls had always cleared his mind.
ZEPHYR
to something better left unknown, i can feel it in my bones
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