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riptide - Lucette - April 25, 2025
The sea took, and the sea gave.
The waves spat their gift onto the sands unceremoniously, a tiny slip of red and black detritus. Lungs salt-soaked as her furs, the girl fought for her life. She fought viciously, though none who saw her would know it.
Lucette was still on the shoreline. Only the faint, steady rise and fall of her chest gave evidence that she still lived.
RE: riptide - Shadess - April 25, 2025
De sea takes one an' give anot'er.Her words murmur, her eyes hard on the form of her sister laying on the sands, breath heaving. If she were to push Lucette back into the water, would her mother return to them?
She thought of doing it, just to see. Shadess even came to her body and laid her front paws on her torso, as though ready to push. She never liked her anyway...
Instead, Shadess would press and press again, hoping to help the long lost twin push out any water from her lungs and gut.
RE: riptide - Sobeille - April 26, 2025
from behind shadess, sobeille appeared. she laid her gaze upon the sodden form of her sister, thousand-eyed stare uncomprehending.
another dead?
no -- the gentle rise and fall of her ribs informed sobeille otherwise.
she nearly said get maman, and, oh, that fucking hurt.
shadess placed her paws upon the girl. sobeille listened as the sea was forced through water-logged lungs, listening to the rhythm of shadess' work and waiting to take over once her sister's limbs tired.
RE: riptide - Lucette - April 26, 2025
Perhaps if she had known what tragedy awaited her, Lucette herself might have urged her littermate to give her back to the sea; to let her rest alongside their family. In her ignorance, she fought for breath. A few faint coughs, first, spraying saltwater — and then she began to retch even before she sat up, the force of it lifting her in itself.
Seawater streamed from mouth, eyes, nose. She choked and heaved, coughed more than breathed. But she did breathe, each sharp intake of air like fire in her throat.
And she recognized her savior, if only vaguely. The scent of her older sister, too. These things registered on a subconscious level, and she could only choke out,
Maman?Wondering even in this moment what could have kept her fierce mother from the side of any of her children, especially one so battered by the sea. In all of her worst moments, it had been her mother she wished for most of all, even beyond her twin.
But she was not here.
RE: riptide - Lafayette - April 27, 2025
another body. another pelt tinged with ginger and auburn, dead at their paws. lafayette approached sobeille and shadess with steps that weighed a thousand pounds each, unable to get a good look at the wolf they tried to revive.
who was it this time? he wondered, making a quick mental tally of those few who remained.
and then she rose, and asked for manman.
lucette,lafayette said, face blank, jaw slightly agape. he closed the rest of the distance between himself and the trio; he couldn't keep his eyes off her.
he'd prayed every day, every night, every moment that she would return, but in the wake of all this tragedy, he'd all but given up the prospect of seeing her again.
but now she was here,
asking for manman.
luce,he said again, and felt those ever-present jaws of grief seize his throat. he couldn't tell her—couldn't. not now. not when she'd only just come back.
helpless, he looked toward his other sisters. they could do it; would do it. they were strong.
he was not.
RE: riptide - Shadess - April 29, 2025
There wasn't much in Shadess that had ever liked Lucette. Yet she was her blood and her gut told her that she should love her none the less. If anything, given the situation of the Sapphique wolves currently, having another of their family returned to them was much well needed. They needed this.
Yet when Lucette squeaked out the question of mother through her hazy consciousness a frown pulled deeply on Shadess lips.
No good has come to Sapphique since you be gone.She avoided, only a hint of trouble had gone on. She felt it best to break these news to her after she was safety home and could cry her eyes out in the comfort of her den. Like everyone else.
Get up.She urged her, moving to stand align with her body to help her and looked to Lafayette with silent question for him to take place at his twin's other side.
We tell you all once you are safe.
RE: riptide - Sobeille - April 30, 2025
she knew it would come; lucette's jaw opened and the sea sprayed out from it, tinged with bile and salt.
sobeille had already positioned herself away from it, gaze flickering as the heavy step of lafayette informed her he was near.
the look they all shared when lucette asked for maman should have been enough to communicate the dread here: sobeille's expression remained flat as she listened to shadess, then watched as lafayette looked to them helplessly.
bring 'er to de roja den.sobeille nudged at lafayette to shoulder lucette's weight, while shadess stood crutch on the girl's opposite side. being sapphique's only remaining herbalist, sobeille knew lucette would need tonics to regain her strength, and come to grips with all that transpired in sapphique these last weeks.
RE: riptide - Lucette - May 07, 2025
She knew then, but denial dug unforgiving claws into her chest. Lucette imagined grave injury, wasting sickness, a half-dozen scenarios in the span of a few seconds; none of them included death, but even so, she knew. On some level. Numb, not quite ready to question the silence, she nodded. She still coughed and trembled as she lifted herself with her family's assistance, but no word of complaint would escape her now.
Her eyes found Lafayette belatedly, as if only just seeing him; as if only just hearing his voice. For a moment — just a moment! — it was not love which lit her venom-green gaze. Not love at all. Her twin had blossomed in her absence into some kind of delicate seaside flower, blossomed while the sea had battered Lucette and wizened her beyond her years. Now she moved like an aged woman, sore and weak, while Lafayette was prompted to use his youthful strength to aid her.
Oh, but she did love him. She did. Lucette softened a bit, murmuring his name, but her eyes left him and did not return as she was guided. She was silent; processing.
RE: riptide - Lafayette - May 09, 2025
there was something in lucette's gaze that hit him straight in the solar plexus.
he'd loved her, always. feared her, sometimes. but this? this was different—and he could not comprehend what exactly he saw in those mirror-image eyes.
it was fleeting, and she spoke his name with softness—but it had existed, if just for a moment. and he couldn't get it out of his mind.
lafayette moved to support her alongside shadess, and the two ferried their sister to the roja den.
one day, maybe, he'd ask her. what exactly had he seen?
for now, he was silent, sending up prayers for her return, marveling that in a time of such great loss, the spirits still saw fit to give them at least one great blessing.