prompt [★] THE SOUND OF SILENCE

[wormwood.]

Everything stays, right where you left it.

But it still changes, ever so slightly, daily and nightly.

Silence was a virtue. Some might've thought it was patience, but Aurum had been taught ever since he was a young cub that it was not patience that made you stand out, but silence. Silence while doing what was asked of you. Silence while suffering. Silence while enduring endless pain under those that claimed to love you, but really hated you more than you could ever know. Although Aurum could never be as silent as the little wolf was when she was a young, he had come pretty damn close. He had gotten used to being told to shut his mouth, mostly out of an obligation to keep silent so more important people could do the talking. False promises were waved in front of the young man's face, all in an effort to make him remain silent, and under their thumb. Hell, the only time that the cub had spoken for the majority of his childhood was when he was with his brother, because that was the only time he felt truly safe. But then, even that had been ripped away from him, and he had become angry, getting his revenge by lashing out and speaking his mind, fighting viciously against the silence that had been enforced on him throughout his entire young life. In his furious effort to get back at those who had wronged him, he had hurt some of those that he had loved the most, and he had learned then, the hard way, that silence was a virtue, but one only to be used when it was needed.

Out of all the people who could've noticed Kiira's silence, Aurum would've probably been one of most obvious. After all, he liked to keep tabs on everyone, and Kiira was young. She needed protecting, and watching over, even if she was an accomplished medic and a mature kid all around. To say that he hadn't noticed her silence would be a lie, since he certainly had noticed how quiet the girl could be in comparison to some others, but be had kind of just... figured that was how she was. After all, some people were just quiet, and there wasn't any deeper reasoning behind it, they just only said what was absolutely necessary. However, her silence and her obvious growing disconnect between her and everyone else was what was beginning to worry him. It was obvious that she felt like nobody cared about her, especially after everything that had happened with the Pitt and how long she had been gone, even if she had returned a while ago. He wanted to make sure that she felt heard, and that's why the lion found himself approaching her when he saw her in the library, staring thoughtfully down at her necklace. Settling nearby, Aurum greeted after a moment, "Kiira, hey... are you feeling alright? You look a million miles away." The proxy could certainly relate to the feeling of being lost in deep thought, particularly when he was worrying about something, but this felt... different, somehow.

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