Chimera Fields gold heart; silver tears

Cypress struck out at them -- particularly Shrike, and the girl flinched, her own shoulder drifting to brush against her companion's in silent apology. But she knew this was not the words of her little brother, and as his bright eyes widened in shock and upset, she quaked, longing for nothing more than to sweep forward and press him in to her side.. to make it all go away.

He said his goodbyes. It seemed so surreal, and Allure looked numbly between her fallen father and the woman he had taken as his own. She never had imagined a day like this, and when Cypress finally turned to go with them, she herself clung on to the hope that perhaps death did not settle upon them now -- that they would stir, and all they needed was a healer and their home.

But the blank stare was embedded in her mind forever, and with a sob, Allure turned away from her father, stumbling in her steps back to the forest.. the journey would be nothing but a blur, and she could not suppress the tears as they streamed down her face.