The Sunspire she will rise above

terance had now failed his daughter. he had not been around to protect her, to save her. he had been patrolling, like he always was— so to say he was doing something wrong was... wrong, but terance still blamed himself. he’d failed his own sweet, soft angel. 

so of course, when she snuck out of the alphas den today he’d noticed. terance has taken to guarding a little ways off, sitting and watching and waiting. he could control more this way. not wanting to teach ibis that the world was a bad place, because it wasn’t, of course, she was just too young to protect herself, he didn’t atop her. instead, he followed close behind. he didn’t make any effort to not be seen, but he didn’t rush up to her right away. 

but ibis was smart. she scented him and turned and called out to him. terance had rounded out in front of her, and padded towards her once she realized it was him. ”hey little bird,” he said gently to her, ducking his nose to give her a soft kiss, ”where are you off to?”