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02-22-2015, 11:27 PM
Saffron
you exist in TIME, but belong to ETERNITY
you exist in TIME, but belong to ETERNITY
There is no doubt there is something very special going on between the pup and the mare. I look on with soft, kind eyes, admiring that such a connection an exist between two so different species. I've seen it with Thranduil and his fawn, Haldir, but it is still a vague concept to me, despite being outlined so well. 'Takes one to know one' clearly applies here; if it were possible for me to bond with a companion perhaps I would know what these blessed equines feel. That is not for me, and perhaps that is better. I would not want to have any creature too dependent on me - after all, I am a fairly independent creature by nature. To have another life that depends on me, that I need to constantly look after, is an overwhelming thought, an overwhelming responsibility.
Hotaru is kind enough to answer my curiosities, though her attention is obviously focused on the wee Alice. I can't blame her, if it were my own I would be the same. She adds to what I know about companions, and I feel my brain trying to contemplate all that I've learned. The thought of an abandoned child hurts me inside, in a way that I have never felt before. Or have I? I don't recognize the sensation and I despise it, the way it makes my chest hurt like I can't breathe, like needles are being slowly pushing into my heart. My ears slide back, an outward sign of my discomfort at the thought in my mind. Of course I don't realize that it might have something to do with my own orphaning so early in my life, but I almost don't remember it. The memories of that pain - loneliness and abandonment - are buried so deep they may never resurface.
The pale bloodied hound's jaws clamp down tightly on the rabbit I've thrown its direction. Ah - so they do have teeth. Helovia is full of wonders: a canine hatched from an egg with fully-formed teeth! So many mysteries that I've been unaware of, living out of a cave on the outskirts for two years of my life. How naive I must be! "She's ravenous! She will grow quickly, I bet." All the blood running from the rabbit, from Alice's small mouth, has me imagining my own dinner to satisfy the pain beginning to radiate through my belly.
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Plot Thread
*You may do anything you wish with Saffron excluding dismemberment and death.
