01-04-2020, 01:01 AM
i was born, on the highway, in a train wreck
with a heart, that was beating, out of my chest
Indie... God, Aurum had missed Indie. Like many others that had come and gone in his life, Aurum had become attached to Indie, thinking of her as an amazing friend and someone he cared deeply for. Aurum had a habit of loving too deeply, and too quickly. He ended up caring for so many, and it usually ended with his heart being broken, but had it ever truly stopped him before? It hadn't, and it probably never would. The alternative, becoming cold and cut off from the rest of the world around him, seemed so much worse than just accepting the possibility of losing people, and Aurum preferred to take his chances, because it meant that he could be happy in the moment. Even with all of this in mind, however, that hadn't made it any easier to see Indie slowly vanishing from his life. It hadn't been an instant process. No, in fact, it had been quite the gradual one. He had gone from seeing Indie nearly every day or every other day to seeing her only a couple times a week, and gradually the numbers had become even more dire, until eventually he just grew used to not seeing her around. He hadn't known if she had vanished from the territory completely or had been wandering aimlessly around it as Sam had been doing recently, but it didn't really matter much. Every time he went to try and visit her, he didn't receive a response, or only received a confused look from Piers. Perhaps that had added on to why it felt so awful for Piers to be leaving his Mother's home and moving out. It felt like, if even Piers wasn't willing to stay, what was to say that Indie would ever return and become a regular presence in their lives again?
Aurum had tried his best not to dwell on this, even though it did feel like a punch to the gut whenever he looked over at or passed by Indie's house, peeking inside only to see no one there. Thankfully – or, well, arguably thankfully – Aurum had plenty of distractions as of recently. Crowley, Roy, being promoted, Sam returning, getting injured by Uriel... all of it had made it so that his mind was hopelessly full of information at all times, and he had little time to worry about where Indie had disappeared off to, or why she was locking herself away. Aurum himself had been very slowly recovering from the deep wound in his chest that Uriel had recently inflicted upon him, and it had led to him being out and about a bit less often than usual. No longer was he constantly patrolling or flying around the territory, instead forced to just lay down and relax for a bit so that his wound actually had a chance to heal. However, this didn't mean that he never left his house. No, if he never left his house, he probably would've gone crazy with the feeling of being stuck inside one building. Instead, he confined himself mostly to the town and the surrounding area, occasionally going on long walks just to stretch out his legs when he wasn't feeling too exhausted. More often than not, these walks ended up at the library, since the tall and old building was a favorite hangout spot of both Aurum and his son, and where he often went to just rest and read books. Up until recently he had been avoiding it because of the building being the scene of Leroy's death, but with the hound now once again alive and back in action, Aurum had been very gradually allowing himself to relax inside it once again.
The proxy had been on one of these walks when he heard a voice that made him raise his head as he grew close to the library. It was Kaito, greeting someone in a friendly manner. Not that out of the ordinary, but Aurum still found himself curious, and before long his large paws had brought him over to the scene. When he saw Indie, however, he froze. Not only had he not seen the female in ages, but now she was emerging from the library with one of the audreylings in tow, the front of her body stained with what appeared to be blood. The lion found himself stiffly standing in place for a moment before he finally moved forward, quickly finding his place beside Kaito. He just stared for another long moment before he finally spoke, croaking out softly as he let himself rest back on his haunches, "You... Indie, where've you been...? What... what happened to you? Why do you have one of them?" He pointed with his paw back at Ridley, still seeming utterly stunned with the whole scenario. It was all so surreal that the proxy wasn't even sure he wasn't just dreaming all of this during one of his injury naps.
Aurum had tried his best not to dwell on this, even though it did feel like a punch to the gut whenever he looked over at or passed by Indie's house, peeking inside only to see no one there. Thankfully – or, well, arguably thankfully – Aurum had plenty of distractions as of recently. Crowley, Roy, being promoted, Sam returning, getting injured by Uriel... all of it had made it so that his mind was hopelessly full of information at all times, and he had little time to worry about where Indie had disappeared off to, or why she was locking herself away. Aurum himself had been very slowly recovering from the deep wound in his chest that Uriel had recently inflicted upon him, and it had led to him being out and about a bit less often than usual. No longer was he constantly patrolling or flying around the territory, instead forced to just lay down and relax for a bit so that his wound actually had a chance to heal. However, this didn't mean that he never left his house. No, if he never left his house, he probably would've gone crazy with the feeling of being stuck inside one building. Instead, he confined himself mostly to the town and the surrounding area, occasionally going on long walks just to stretch out his legs when he wasn't feeling too exhausted. More often than not, these walks ended up at the library, since the tall and old building was a favorite hangout spot of both Aurum and his son, and where he often went to just rest and read books. Up until recently he had been avoiding it because of the building being the scene of Leroy's death, but with the hound now once again alive and back in action, Aurum had been very gradually allowing himself to relax inside it once again.
The proxy had been on one of these walks when he heard a voice that made him raise his head as he grew close to the library. It was Kaito, greeting someone in a friendly manner. Not that out of the ordinary, but Aurum still found himself curious, and before long his large paws had brought him over to the scene. When he saw Indie, however, he froze. Not only had he not seen the female in ages, but now she was emerging from the library with one of the audreylings in tow, the front of her body stained with what appeared to be blood. The lion found himself stiffly standing in place for a moment before he finally moved forward, quickly finding his place beside Kaito. He just stared for another long moment before he finally spoke, croaking out softly as he let himself rest back on his haunches, "You... Indie, where've you been...? What... what happened to you? Why do you have one of them?" He pointed with his paw back at Ridley, still seeming utterly stunned with the whole scenario. It was all so surreal that the proxy wasn't even sure he wasn't just dreaming all of this during one of his injury naps.
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