Kildeer Rest chhod gaye balam mujhe

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the emotions rippled through him the entire run north, but he didn't allow them to permeate the temporary shell he buried himself in until he finally broke down from exhaustion, out in the open. his legs buckled, heart bursting, and he gasped, pressing his forehead against the ground. he let out a ragged scream, a guttural holler, that echoed throughout this hollow place and scared a flock of birds from their resting place nearby, wings in a fluttering burst all at once.

feeling after feeling assailed him, shades of anger and sorrow--one moment a snarl, the next a sob. his brain could not come to terms with what he had seen. he had thought his love for coelacanth--strong, but incomplete--had been a betrayal of sorts to his mate, a slap in the face to her continued loyalty.

no. no--this was betrayal, in its most outward form. whatever effect his wandering thoughts had, they paled in comparison to this. everything did.

he thought she was better. thought that she was the one. but grayday's words came back to him, the lecture about not tying her down. but he hadn't! instead, he'd given her space, and now this had happened. he'd given her space, and she had taken advantage of it. it just went to show that no matter the goodness of your heart, even the ones closest to that heart would find a way to shatter it.

aditya cried like a child on the ground, curling into himself. everything hurt: his head, his stomach, his soul. the vibrant spirit he was had been, for now, extinguished in the wake of this catastrophe, and the light slowly left his eyes, leaving them blank, golden orbs sunk into his skull. staring sightlessly ahead, the only motion coming from his ribs and belly, heaving erratically with quiet sobs.