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[OPEN] Wherever your heart resides.

Ktulu the Constrictor Posts: 509
Outcast atk: 5.0 | def: 9.5 | dam: 6.5
Mare :: Hybrid :: 16.1 :: 7 HP: 70.5 | Buff: ENDURE
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#6

when your eyes are red and emptiness is all you know
with the darkness fed i will be your scarecrow</style>


Every step of the way Hototo was at her side and it brought Ktulu back to a time when her son was a suckling. When he listened to her and hung off of her every word and looked at her as if she were some sort of goddess. She wondered if he would still look at her the same way now or if he would see her for what she really was and know that she was not the wonderful being that he had made her out to be. She was far from it and she would not hide it. She could not.

She was reminded again of the knob-kneed little boy that fumbled his steps as they entered the forest. She didn't have to even see his stumbling to know, she just had to hear it. The difference in his pace was sudden and very noticeable. Rather than leave him behind and continue on, Ktulu slowed as she always did when he was a foal to give him time to catch up with her. She had never gone to his aid then to help him and wondered if he resented her for it, but she had not done it out of meanness. She had done it because she wanted him to be self-reliant and strong. She didn't want to coddle him and turn him into something weak because she'd had no misgivings when she'd agreed to be his mother. He was to be something great. He was to be a protector and to be a protector he would have to be strong. Her job was just to raise him and protect him until he was old enough to take on the duties that his father would give him.

Ktulu slowed gradually until she was standing among the trees, her sides heaving as she caught her breath. Under the trees the rain was a little less heavy but drops still found their way down between branches and leaves and splashed against her dark coat. The Constrictor took a deep breath and let it out before turning her gaze on her son and she smiled. He had grown into a handsome stallion and stood taller than she did. He made her feel far older than her four years and it was then that she understood how her father must have felt when she and Ophelia had reached adulthood. What she couldn't understand was how he felt when he discovered that he had grandchildren and she didn't want to make that discovery anytime soon.

"Hototo." She said his name after waiting a few minutes to catch her breath. "Its good to see you." No, it was wonderful to see her son. She was ecstatic to see him because she had worried night after night since he'd taken his leave, but she had swept those feelings under the proverbial rug so she could do her duties protecting the herd. But she had no one to protect now.

Ktulu suddenly stepped forward and reached to hook her neck over her son's withers and pull him against her chest where she held him firmly. Months of worry washed away with the rain because he was finally back and in one piece.



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Messages In This Thread
Wherever your heart resides. - by Hototo - 10-05-2013, 03:27 PM
RE: Wherever your heart resides. - by Ktulu - 10-05-2013, 03:58 PM
RE: Wherever your heart resides. - by Hototo - 10-05-2013, 11:34 PM
RE: Wherever your heart resides. - by Ktulu - 10-08-2013, 08:23 PM
RE: Wherever your heart resides. - by Hototo - 10-10-2013, 07:08 PM
RE: Wherever your heart resides. - by Ktulu - 10-23-2013, 06:09 PM
RE: Wherever your heart resides. - by Hototo - 11-09-2013, 05:26 PM
RE: Wherever your heart resides. - by Ktulu - 11-13-2013, 10:17 PM

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