Under the light of a 1000 colors

He did not argue, nor did he say a word as she left.  The further she got, the more anger and hurt rose like bile within him, until he could no longer watch her, and instead turned and left in the completely opposite direction.  And when he reached the border of the lands, he kept going, because like her, there was no one he wanted to see right now.

It wouldn't be until hours later that he realized why he was so conflicted. Why he hadn't offered until now, even though he'd shared a den before with Junior like it was nothing.  He hadn't wanted to overstep his damn boundaries, even though he knew they were friends.  And why irrationally he wanted to go find the father of those pups and.... No.  

It wasn't the stranger's fault that Osprey had sought another in loneliness.  Was it even Osprey's? All their conversations, and she had never let on.  Maybe she hadnt felt she could.  Or maybe, even worse, she had and he hadn't been listening.

Maybe this was, at least in part, his fault after all.