Blackfeather Woods all i've ever known

@Abraxas

It had broken her heart, a messy, jagged split down the middle, to watch her brothers leave without her. She knew they would be okay with Cicero--though she worried for her father, too, and his poor health--but. . .for the first time, the trio was apart.

They hadn't been inseparable, per se, but they had always been within a short cry of each other. Now, they were gone. . .and Maegi didn't know when she would see them again. If she would see them again.

She spent her time inside Mephala's Web, holed up in the tunnels beneath the Woods, racked with pain and with guilt. She tried to sleep inside their old whelping den, but the scents that clung there, and the memories associated with them, brought her heart into further turmoil. It was cold and bare down here. Here and there, caches full of her mother's greenery caught her nose, but beyond that there was naught but the cool aroma of earth and stone.

The girl sat in Fellglow Keep, the bioluminescent walls glowing blue off her white pelt. Her throat closed with a sob, hastily choked back; she missed Kove, whom she had first met in this very cavern. And Nyx, and Moonshadow, and Rouge, and Vaati. . .oh, Vaati! She hoped he was faring well, up in the Bypass. When would the pack return?

But most of all, she missed Euron and Ramsay. She knew they hadn't approved of her choice to stay; their approval was less important to her than their love. And right now, their love was many pawsteps away, and she was alone. So terribly alone.