03-03-2021, 04:56 PM
[align=center][div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; width: 310px; text-align: justify; line-height:120%"]For what seemed, at least within recent memory, he felt whole and yet splintered, given everything only for his own rejection to tarnish all. The days passed in predictable mundane normality, routine established and kept, the addition of proper training a footnote. Again taken up his wandering, enjoyed the freedom, yet found himself rather set on his destination, sought where a particular individual was present. She had been lacking, however, empty and cold her den when he had entered, bold even with hesitation marring his first steps. Poorly taken this, though suppressed his more turbulent thoughts. His exit was concluded with setting up outside of the den, there perched without sign he would move before her return.
And he did as he set out to do, though the arrival of Rhine was something he was not awake for. Rather, he seemed to have sprawled haphazardly upon his back, twisted in a manner that seemed uncomfortable, asleep as he had not been for many nights prior. Her voice a sudden and jarring thing, snort accompanying the sharp closure of his teeth, head rising as blurry eyes rapidly blinked. She was back. The thought arose and no other, clumsy his rise, further added to the grains caught in his coat as numerous times he tripped over his own paws in his haste.
Her words slow to register, momentum dwindling, head slight in its cant. He knew of her change, had it explained after their reunion, little thought of it beyond a preference for now gone the ebony depths she once had for eyes, and was enthusiastic over the change, though at times clumsy with it. This something unexpected, an unknown. Thoughts slowly turned over as Foam approached with the end of her announcement, gentle in pressing his forehead to her leg, the only place be may reach with relative ease. "Got it, ma." Easy the utterance of the unfamiliar title, singular the time prior deemed a parental figure, and that upon the other side of things, wide the smile he wore.
He had never had a mother before, part of him always expecting it to stay that way, but now, looking to Rhine with wide eyes and a dopey smile, he was glad he had found her and could think of her as such.
And he did as he set out to do, though the arrival of Rhine was something he was not awake for. Rather, he seemed to have sprawled haphazardly upon his back, twisted in a manner that seemed uncomfortable, asleep as he had not been for many nights prior. Her voice a sudden and jarring thing, snort accompanying the sharp closure of his teeth, head rising as blurry eyes rapidly blinked. She was back. The thought arose and no other, clumsy his rise, further added to the grains caught in his coat as numerous times he tripped over his own paws in his haste.
Her words slow to register, momentum dwindling, head slight in its cant. He knew of her change, had it explained after their reunion, little thought of it beyond a preference for now gone the ebony depths she once had for eyes, and was enthusiastic over the change, though at times clumsy with it. This something unexpected, an unknown. Thoughts slowly turned over as Foam approached with the end of her announcement, gentle in pressing his forehead to her leg, the only place be may reach with relative ease. "Got it, ma." Easy the utterance of the unfamiliar title, singular the time prior deemed a parental figure, and that upon the other side of things, wide the smile he wore.
He had never had a mother before, part of him always expecting it to stay that way, but now, looking to Rhine with wide eyes and a dopey smile, he was glad he had found her and could think of her as such.