Wapun Meadow To you, I gave everything I had and everything I didn't have

Annasiak was not running away this time.  Every time she had left before was directly after some kind of confrontation.  She had ran because she was scared, because she didn't want to be hurt anymore.  This was different.  This was a calculated choice.

She didn't want to leave without telling him, but she knew that if she had stopped to talk to him she would've faltered and crumbled.  She'd never leave.

It seemed as though she would not escape so freely.  And why should she?  Nothing in life had ever been easy for her.  Xan, she said so quietly the wind might've carried it away.  She bristled in fear.

What could she tell him?  Redleaf, she asserted, louder this time.  Indra.  One of her paws worked at the ground beneath her.  We will visit.  For baby.  The three of them would have parents; Reigi was still determined to be a good mother to her children.  But for all of them, it was best to live apart with two loving parents than together while one wasted away.