Firefly Ravine Purple Skies and Fireflies.

Taking a deep breath, Lyric closed her eye's gently, looking into the sky, as if talking to air itself. 
'It happened about a year ago, before Rain was born.'



Lyric paced through the icy rain, each droplet seemed to be soaking her the bone. Even trying to keep her head up was a large struggle, along with the heavy weight in her stomach, her soon to be born pups. It had been a week since she had been banished from her pack, when her Alpha, Kaine, found out of her pregnancy, as well as the fact that the father was a domestic, he was not impressed.

'You are with pups? With a domestic of all sorts! Without my permission!' Kaine spat out at Lyric, his lips turning upwards into a snarl. Lyric looked towards her mother is desperation, hoping somehow she would root for her in defence, but if was to no avail, her mother simply shook her head with a disgusted expression. She was crushed. 
'Leave now, or be torn apart limb from limb'  Kaine pounced forward, his amber eyes staring through her. With her head up high, Lyric turned around and walked out of the pack territory with no words, she had kept her silence for the next few hours after long leaving their territory, then collapsed into tears.

As the rain pounded on more, she heard a sharp cracking noise in the near distance. Lightning. 
Desperately, she tried to run but a sharp ache in her stomach took her by surprise. 
No, not now. 
But to her terror, each step she took increased the pain in her womb, she couldn't ignore it. She was going into labour. As a second strike of lightning hit, Lyric dragged her self into an upright hollow tree, it was best thing she find at that moment in time anyway. Once she clambered inside, she immediately lay down on the damp wood and began to push. The pain was sharp and intense now, each more jarring than the last, causing her to yelp in pain. After an hour, the first was born.
Grabbing it by the scruff, she began to lick and clean the child, inspecting it's vitals.
It was a grey dappled girl, but before she could do no further, the next pup was already pushing it's way out. 

Four excruciating hours later, in the pouring rain, Lyric had delivered four pups, two girls and three boys, but as she began to rest, one last pup decided to make an appearance. She was a small red dappled girl, a lot smaller than the rest. Obviously a runt, but even so, she had fallen in love with all of them, each one different, all unique. Her heart throbbed in motherly love. Exhausted by the long experience, Lyric positioned her pups to her teats and decided to rest, Happy for the first time in months. 


Her happiness was short lived. 

As soon as she woke, Lyric knew something was wrong. Quickly she nudged at her pups, only to find that, they were no longer moving, except for a small squirming pup, reaching towards her mother crying....

  

'The cold was too much for them, died of hypothermia I suspect, somehow Rain managed to survive through the storm, hence her name. I miss them, I wonder what they may of been like, their interests, would my boys of been interested in hunting, would they ever become an alpha, would any of my girls mothers themselves. To this day, I wonder what life would be with them.'
Being the first time she had ever told the tale, Lyric voice had cracked as she said the last sentence. 
Letting out a choking breath, tears rolled down her fur.
'I'm, I'm sorry Teci, I didn't mean to-' 
But she couldn't finish as more sobs rose to her throat. 
'If only I had been a better mother.'



OCC:
Oh, god, won't lie, I teared up a little writing this.