i believe the world is burning to the ground | finally breaking

[lovekit.]

IT TOOK A LITTLE TIME
[align=center]TO MAKE A LITTLE BETTER

IT'S ONLY GOING UP

JUST ONE THING THEN ANOTHER

lovekit — the typhoon — tags

Truthfully, Lovekit still didn't understand what was happening. It was difficult for one so young, to figure out why one of his mothers was gone, or why so many seemed to be grieving and bitter. Sam had just looked asleep, hadn't she? She was cold, yes, but sometimes he got cold, and he'd pull more blankets over himself. So where had she gone? Why was mama so broken apart? It was so insanely hard for the child to grasp, that someone he had known for all of his short life was now just... gone. Vanished from the face of the Earth, never to be seen again. At least not the way that they were before. It seemed utterly impossible to Lo, who felt as though he could see the way that everyone's spirits intermingled. People were a sum of all of their parts, including their unique quirks, and all of their connections. It was so intricate that the mere thought of it all just collapsing in on itself seemed irrational, as if the world simply had some fatal flaw in it that he, nor anyone else, could fix.

In a time of constant questions and struggling, Lovekit had leaned on his family more heavily than ever before, feeding into his siblings' anxious natures. He made sure to shift a little when Lawkit went on his seemingly constant patrols around their home, and he allowed Seapaw to keep him as close as he wanted, just to make sure he was there. While the boy didn't entirely know what was going on, he knew that something had gone wrong, and that his siblings needed his support. So, he tried to do that by just... being there. Being with them, and providing them with the love that he had been named for three months ago. One part of that love had been shattered the day that Sam died, even if it was assured that Goldenluxury would never stop loving her. However, the other part of that love – Goldie's love for her children, and in turn their love for each other – would never fade. Which meant that his spirit would never fade, as long as he clung to it as tightly as possible. Or at least, that was how it worked, in his juvenile and frightened mind.

Truthfully, Lovekit wasn't sure what had drawn him first towards the shore. It might've been Seapaw's pained and outraged screaming, or it might've been the scent of a very terrified Lawkit. Either way, Lo felt himself drawn forward, large paws sinking into the sand as he grew closer to Seapaw, and the chaos that he was raising around him. The water raged viciously around Sea, responding violently to the older boy's emotions, yet Lovekit remained unafraid. Instead, his heart ached with sympathy for his older sibling, and he continued growing closer. His paws slipped further into wet sand, and he could feel the waves shoving and tugging at his form, threatening to sweep him up and pull him under. Still, he remained resolute, and stubborn, something he had inherited from both of his mothers. Once he had grown closer enough, Lo clenched his jaws a bit, paws reaching out to try and wrap around Seapaw, and pull his older brother into his chest. There was a definite size difference, considering the age difference between the two litters, but Lovekit didn't care. All he cared about was that he provided comfort for Seapaw, even if the other's rage threatened to swallow him up and never let him go.