Silver Creek O Captain! My Captain!

Heston's story made Spring heart ache for him.  Of course her pack had been wiped out by a terrible disease that had killed everyone but her, made them all go mad till death.  She could hardly imagine what it would be like to love someone and then have them ambush you.  Although in a way Zander had ambushed her... mentally and emotionally by leaving her to be a single Mother, but still if he had been the one to attack her it would have tore her heart up.  As Heston told his story she foun herself starting to feel a little closer to him and felt a glimmer of a feeling that she hadn't felt in a long time.  She tried to push it back down, but the feeling resisted against her so she did her best to ignore it.

When Heston finished Spring was silent for a moment amazed that she was the first one that Heston had told.  "I'm so sorry."  She whispered quietly.  "It's such a terrible feeling to have someone you thought you loved aboundound you like Zander and that female..." she trailed off there for a moment as she thought back on the similar battle Starlit Hills had faced and lost too.  "Despite the loss of my pups..." she glanced down at her paws at their mention again, biting back the sudden lump in her throat.  "There was a disease that killed off my whole pack.  It made them go mad, with a foaming mouth.  That was how my little girl..." she paused for a moment taking a deep breath, "Hazel died."  She choked out her daughters name suddenly overcome with emotions.  "So I know how that feels too I suppose."

Spring shifted her gaze away blinking away and swallowing away her sudden flood of emotions.  For a few more moments she looked away, catching herself before she turned back to face Heston with a brief sad smile.  "I'm sorry."  She whispered, gaze falling to her paws for a moment before she shifted them back up to the gray male.