pure sweet violent hearts

@Riordan!

After being reunited with Eshe, and then fighting with Eshe, and the making up with and going on a hunt with Eshe, Bhreac felt like she'd been put through her emotional paces. It hadn't been a particularly difficult journey to find her sister, but it hadn't been short and although any injuries she had lingering from the scuffle when a hostile pack had attacked their family had healed up just fine, she still felt run ragged and strained.

Now, though, she could start to gather herself again. She had at least one of her family members back — the rest didn't do with thinking about — and she was going to accompany Eshe soon to join a newly forming pack, at her sister's behesh. She was somewhat less than eager to immediately jump into something new, but Eshe wanted it, and Bhreac wanted not to be alone. Despite that, after finding something to eat, she and her sister had parted ways. It had been an emotional reunion, many of the emotions less than pleasant, and she needed some time to decompress.

The sun was starting to hang low in the sky, warm evening colors seeping outward across the sky, and Bhreac tried to let herself breathe as she approached the lake. She felt weary and lingeringly lonely despite having found her sister, and all she wanted was to wash everything that had happened over the past few months from her and let it drift away.

Once she reached the edge of the lake, she didn't stop, just kept walking as though she hadn't encountered the water at all, until she was comfortably submerged. Bhreac ducked her head under the water and the then resurfaced, giving her head a shake to rid herself of excess water before retreating to the edge of the lake once more and settling on her stomach in the shallows to watch what she could see of the sunset. Despite the summer, as night approached she felt a bit of a chill running its fingers through her damp coat, especially as the wind glanced off the water, but she couldn't be bothered to move anymore.