The Sentinels When all you got is hurt

@Terance - I don't believe we have had a "face to face" mother/son thread yet, have we? :)

Ever since leaving Flightless Falcons, Osprey had only rarely immersed in the sea of memories about those first three years of life there. The circumstances that had forced her to go had been difficult and unpleasant to remember and the new life here had been so full of adventures and events that they overshadowed the past.

Yet now, when she spent her days together with her children - teaching, playing, exploring - she felt like she was reliving her childhood again. She saw ordinary and mundane rituals with new eyes and grasped them with just as much enthusiasm as the young. It was no wonder that the images from the past resurfaced more often.

It was late one night, when Osprey woke from a dream, where she had been a cub again, back at her first true home, seeing dear faces and feeling the love. And for the first time in very long, she suddenly felt fierce longing to be there again, where things - it seemed - had stayed the same. Where living the life was simpler and easier.

She carefullly raised from her spot between Dante and the pile of cubs - all sleeping soundly - and went out in the night. The star-filled sky greeted her there, winking cheerfully at the mortal soul on the Earth.