Aster

While I had never really gotten to know Orb, I felt the bond between us often. It did not draw me to him the way it drew him to me but I think that was because I had so much else to distract my attention. Halcyon, the pups, and once Asteraia. How strange was it that every land I lived in eventually turned against me, even if it wasn't in the typical manner. Perhaps I was destined to a life of failure through my own ignorance and laziness. Perhaps fate designed it so that I could be knocked low and then lower still until I blazed my way from the ashes, like the phoenix. I remember once sitting on a small mound in Iromar as the sun blazed a trail on the horizon, rising in the dawning hours, and I had seen the vision of a bird with fire-tipped wings. My mother had been unimpressed with my story, but then, she never could see the beauty in things imagined.

Now, I feel the burn of his own righteous anger in tandem with mine and fro a moment I feel as if combined we could topple the world. That is the strength of such a bond. Would his multiple personalities mean a stronger partner? One that could help me power through all the evil in this world until I was reunited with my children and my mate?

His snarl is met with my own, his fury mingling with mine, ears snapping back and teeth exposed as I snap at the air in front of me. Not at him, but a symbol of the feeling in me. The need to get it out. "Find my mate. Find Halcyon. He will have a plan," I hope. "Tell him I sent you. The more paws, the better. I'm counting on you Orb. Don't fail me." I say the words harshly because that is what I am, a harsh creature on the inside, once destined to rule and now destined to spit orders that may or may not have any impact. I was a catastrophe on four paws and I would blaze a deadly trail if I had to. Sacrifices must be made and if it had to be, I would sacrifice myself to finish this. But first, my soul.

shatter the sky; lay waste to the earth