We can feel panic building in your chest, in your stomach and tightening your throat; you're slowly suffocating yourself.. unintentionally. While you had approached, the boy only buried himself deeper into the cove beneath the golden touched mare's wing. Another hard swallow passed through your tight throat, your jaws flexing under dark hide and Ryuu disappears behind a dark wing. "He's been here with me for several weeks now. Ever since I found him abandoned on the beach." For once, silence fills your skull. We have nothing to say, and you yourself cannot imagine a child being found, alone, in the wilderness.. so far from where his birth mother called home.

Abandoned? one of us finally squeaks. Your jaw becomes slack and drops open, stunned by the flaxen haired woman's words. "Ranjiri." she adds, closing your second question. Secretly, we grab the woman's name and stash it deep into a new file, knowing that you will meet with her again in the future, but you can barely concentrate on anything but the tiniest bit of golden and red stockings that tremble in the water. "She just.." You pause, choking back a choke before you look like a complete idiot to your son. Another hard swallow and a quick throat clearing rattles us around. "She left you, alone?"

You had at least hoped to hear that Ranjiri had been sought out for whatever reason by Aurelia; the possibility of them being distant friends who had talked about their shared love for children (which we now know is laughable) crossed your mind, but you could only shove that away as quickly as it came. "How?" you whisper, your eyes finding themselves on the lively gaze of Ryuu's loving mother.

Once more, Ouija paws at the moving waves, whining as she hears her name come from behind the black and gold shield. She wants so badly to play, but the water only intimidates her. From her weak - but growing - mental bond, Ouija cries in your head; something you cannot actually hear, but feel. Her heart hurt while she watched the show play out in front of her, but she wasn't sure why or what was even happening. She only knew that she wanted to help.

Unable to focus on anything but the destroyed life of your first born, you take a deep breath, attempting to make eye contact with Ranjiri while she hides Ryuu from your sight. His small voice is barely a squeak from under her guard, but you don't hone in, in fear of the boy not trusting you even more. But why should he trust you? You were not there to take him under and help him grow. He has no reason to trust some one he does not know.

"I'm sorry Ryuu." Glazed eyes become hot and wet with tears. They tremble on the edge of your eyelids and threaten to spill over and join the sea.

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