Safiri

She has learned to spread out the work of wandering, to wean herself off of the sturdy trees that she so heavily depends on in times of desperation, when her heart is thundering and her body fills with aches she cannot source. Haki will do his best to help her, at her side the instant she begins to feel faint, when their connection flickers at the shudders of her petite heart - he is still a pup, curious and innocent, Safiri is almost envious of his childish ignorance at the fate of their home, he is too small and young to comprehend that there is something stirring in the air, that it lingers over them like some sort of brewing storm, threatening to rain down upon the land and wash it out.

The lamb becomes a drifting nomad, with her home disbanded and her existence at a loss, she swallows up every detail within Helovia before the impending end, she takes her chances and ventures farther than she had dared previously, witnessing the world around her as it blossoms and crumbles before her. She is watching it fall apart, the way pieces are disappearing, fading into the dirt and ruin at the hand of a force she does not know in full, she is witnessing ultimate destruction through a child's point of view, not quite completely grasping the idea that it's all over, but knowing just enough that it's the final chapter. She has been keeping a thin veil between this realization and Haki, desperate to protect him from the crushing knowledge until she thinks he's ready, or until the end finally dawns upon them - whichever comes first.

Today, the pair has stumbled upon a quiet, open meadow filled with dying flowers and whispers of despair, a stiff, brisk breeze tangles through her short ivory mane and dips into the grass at her feet, whisking away dried petals and debris. Safiri enjoys the silence that fills the air around her, drowned out only by the rushing of blood in her ears and the beating of her fragile heart as her and Haki stand side by side looking out across the land, gazing down at the reality crumbling before them.

And there, she sees familiar figures, Haki perking his petite ears and wiggling his tail because he already knows, sticking to Safiri's heels as he pulls at her through the wiring that has them ensnared within one another's lives, bound by souls - he drags her behind him as she trots towards the two pups, Auni in tow on tiny ivory legs. Curious as she stands before them, Haki sniffing from a distance with intrigue rolling through her mind and suddenly she's realizing that one has spoken, that beyond the droning sound of her overworked heart, a voice is being carried by the larger of the pups, bewildered spring green falling to the dominant pup as he speaks. "What are you?"
"Talk."