are the dead really silent?
Finally. I could breathe deep and be at peace. I watched my daughter clamber over the rocks of the craigs, her paws loosening small stones. There was so little of her mother in her. Slender, dancer’s body mere shades darker than my own creamy gold, her silver gracing her back. She did not remember her mother, though the fem’s voice was still a whisper in my ear, it made it easier for the pup to accept and love the others around her. Women of the forests, a forest that called to me not for my own soul, but for her’s. My daughter had found a home and a family with Zeltzin and Shiloh, and I could breath in her life. All I heard from her was her living laughter and the joy she brought to me as well.
Together we stepped through the craigs. Father and daughter along with the spirit price I had paid for her. A young rabbit hopped along the trail with us, waiting if it ventured too far ahead and stamping its foot if we let it fall behind. Solstice giggled at it, sometimes pouncing it with a gentle nature that could harm none. They were beautiful. Together they meandered up a trail that leads to a small creek. The moss that covered the stone was green and glistening in the mists.
In the summer warmth the spirits are quiet and there is an ease to the air around me. I let them go, content in their happiness, happy in their contentment. I hear a sound of surprise and the cheerful ‘hello’ from my season old daughter. My paws dig into the ground and I launch myself toward her, lips peeled back to fight off anything that could be a threat. Nothing will harm my child!
I stop myself just in time to see Solstice’s two toned eyes and face grinning happily up at me. “Father! I found someone!” She looked back at the wolf she had found, her tail patting happily against the moss. Beside her, the rabbit stayed close to her side, eyeing the wolf. “Hello! I am Solstice!”
Resheathing my fangs, trusting the girl’s judgement, I look over at the woman by the water.
lord; 5 falls; 41in/190lbs; fatelessXheartless; wandering ghost |