through the woods we ran / return

[Fairylights]

―――― A month. A month her friend had left this place and left Fairy thinking the worse. Why had he left? For quite some time she had kicked herself, wondering what it was that had driven him away- what had taken him, what had changed his mind about Sunhaven. What if he had died? What if he had been taken, like so many others had? For the month, no one could offer her any answers. She had always been the quiet sort, not the one to ask so many questions, but she had been left otherwise dissatisfied by the answers that she had, indeed, been given in answer to August's untimely disappearance from the familiar shores of Sunhaven.

But Fairylights, of course, had no inclination of where he had gone, and no reason to follow. So, she had tried to content herself with keeping busy around the Clan, cleaning up after the disaster, trying to live her life, away from her parents, with her new-found Uncle Buckingham and the eerieness, the quietness, that Sunhaven had become. It was.. as close to a home as she would find anymore, but compared to her small, quaint little village, where everyone knew each other, and something was occuring every night, this place offered less for her to cling to. Less to busy her worrying mind and the horrors she had faced in her young life. There was only so much that one young girl- a young woman- could do.

But she had never considered that he might return. It was morbid, even she would not deny that, but no word? No word at all of the only person she had considered a friend here? Her footsteps carried her across the beach that day, softly humming a song with no real purpose as her feet idly kicked aside a few cracked shells scattered along the shore, making her way back up towards the town. It was there that her gaze lifted only slightly at a flash of a familiar color, her song pausing as her steps half-stumbled for but a moment as she looked again, peering in the near distance at the figure that rounded the corner.  "August!" she cried out loudly before she could mind herself, her paws quickly dashing forward to carry herself towards the familiar figure of her friendly, boldly trying to catch up to him and tackle him in the biggest hug she could, her emotions fleeting, for a moment, however overwhelming as she forgot herself, clinging to him tightly had she succeeded in finding him, and not the ground just behind him.  "August! You're alive! You're here! Where did you go? Why did you go?" the questions tumbled forth, a threat of tears, much surprising to herself as any other, catching in her voice.

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