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12-18-2015, 09:00 AM
When she pulled away, Ashamin wasn't sure how to feel. Was it sorrow at the loss of her warmth or relief at the absence of responsibility to hold her up? Maybe it wasn't his job. Maybe he misunderstood. But he had taken on a herd's burden and left his needs to rot and be forgotten. Someday, such neglect would take its toll.
When Tiamat fussed and reached for the herbs, he let out a slow exhale and reached out to nudge her nose away. It was too late to heal the Bear God's bloody marks, there was nothing she could do to take away the memory of that or any other pain. So "It's nothing," he lied as he rejected the herbs. "Just a bloody scar, now. I just need to sleep." He spoke just to fill the air with something, but as soon as he did he realized how pressing the need was. His eyelids fell as if it were suddenly impossible to hold them up--the world around him felt like a weight.
Lochan circled around him, white eyes sharp and watching, little figure wide awake and radiating with the energy of being alive. This was an innocence Ashamin had lost. Someday, the cerndyr would lost it, too. But for now Lochan was bright and affectionate, willing to interrupt the moment if only to bump his ever-watching brow against Tiamat's knee and let out a soft bray, open his mouth to accept the herbs Ashamin would not. Knowing the trouble the Haruspex got into, they would be a useful thing to keep in his sarong for the future, if not for now.
"I just need to sleep..." Ashamin murmured, his tail going slack, his cannons shuddering with the weight of staying upright and alert. Maybe, she would join him. Maybe, she would wake him. But the need was there, a pain dragging him down into something dark once again. Something, of course, that felt like the quiet emptiness of death.
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