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In the comfort of his daughter's embrace, unsightly tears slipped from his eyes as his arms wrapped tighter around her. Should she have not come home, nights spent awake awaiting her return would have turned into weeks, those weeks into months and into years and into centuries sat on his lonesome pondering where she had gone and if she would ever come back, a hollow shell of himself with but a singular purpose, patiently waiting. The guilt from not being able to keep her safe would have become too great for Crow to bear—after all, he had made a promise to Ben, a promise to not let anything happen to her so long as he could help it, one he did not intend to sever for a long time.
The feline's grip loosened, and he leaned back to take a good look at her, afraid if he let her out of his sight once more she would vanish... "You didn't have to do that for me." Then his eyes found her paws, an alarming sight, patchy fur and obvious scarring revealing an apparent conflict. "W-what happened out there..?" he questioned with an eyebrow raised in a conspicuous manner, fully stepping back now to allow her room to breathe.
In the comfort of his daughter's embrace, unsightly tears slipped from his eyes as his arms wrapped tighter around her. Should she have not come home, nights spent awake awaiting her return would have turned into weeks, those weeks into months and into years and into centuries sat on his lonesome pondering where she had gone and if she would ever come back, a hollow shell of himself with but a singular purpose, patiently waiting. The guilt from not being able to keep her safe would have become too great for Crow to bear—after all, he had made a promise to Ben, a promise to not let anything happen to her so long as he could help it, one he did not intend to sever for a long time.
The feline's grip loosened, and he leaned back to take a good look at her, afraid if he let her out of his sight once more she would vanish... "You didn't have to do that for me." Then his eyes found her paws, an alarming sight, patchy fur and obvious scarring revealing an apparent conflict. "W-what happened out there..?" he questioned with an eyebrow raised in a conspicuous manner, fully stepping back now to allow her room to breathe.