Swiftcurrent Creek Why won't you love me?

She had kind of gotten used to the broken world of missing her brother and sister. She had gotten used to the fact that Zephyr had done something bad and couldn't face it and for some reason Helios had joined him in leaving their family to freak out and suffer alone. She had gone from being confused and hurt to being content with their absence and feeling somewhat resentful toward how they could run and escape from the problems. Her anger had been released in the forms of practicing tracking and hunting and occasionally rough housing with whoever she could find to practice wielding her fangs against an attacker. That day she had begun to search for Panther, the man who was supposed to teach her to really fight when the familiar scent caught her attention. She froze and her heart lurched, all the control she had over herself gone as she stumbled forward and hurriedly tracked her brother down. She would confront him, demand to know where he had gone and make it clear she was mad and he had hurt everyone.


But what happened instead was her eyes filling with tears "Helios....Helios why'd you gotta go and run away?" she whispered, lips and words trembling as she tried to deal with the simultaneous waves of relief and joy that were at war with the sudden impulse to throttle him, to make him feel just as bad as she and Polaris had felt in his absence "we were scared...Polaris lost it a bit" she said, not admitting that she had been an even bigger mess in the aftermath of the horrible event.