Larksong Grotto shatter

 

discussion of suicidal ideation!

she didn't know how long it had been in the back of her mind.  it was like a streetlamp that flickered on too early, while the sun was still risen: overhanging soft, silent, ever-present.  kill yourself.

it lingered over every facet of her life.  when she was patrolling, she sometimes wondered what it would be like if a lone wolf came and stole the breath from her lungs.  when she strolled into alarian's den, she always fantasized what it would feel like to consume his herbs and come to an end.

normally, she could push it down.  and as eris, she had pretended to forget what it was like entirely.  zamael had caused the floodgates to burst, and now it had all come back to her in an overwhelming flood of emotion.  

so when she ran headfirst into the danger of larksong grotto, she did not fear for her safety, and when her dainty paw slipped and her too-small body cracked against the staircase of steep ledges she could only feel relief.

somehow,she escaped relatively unscathed but as night fell around the ever-green grove, lanawyn eris keil was not safe yet.  she would have to find her way out, and it would not prove to be an easy task without help.