Sun Mote Copse I just wanted you to watch me dissolve slowly

Well, yeah, said Fennec in as matter-of-fact a fashion as possible. Oh fuck, thought Alyx, who failed at first to realize that Fennec wasn’t upset about it. Now that she looked more closely, there was some kind of whitish film over her older sister’s eyes that was just downright eerie. How hadn’t she noticed that Fennec didn’t have any pupils?

Shit, I’m like, really sorry, she stammered, snatching her paw back from the pebble she’d been rolling around and clambering to her feet. Probably Phox and Towma and Niamh had all mentioned Fennec’s blindness at some point or another, but she just never really listened. Or cared, honestly. It wasn’t like she’d expected Fennec to come back. She didn’t think she’d ever really meet her, so it didn’t matter.

But obviously it did. I’m, uh… Licking her lips nervously, Alyx crammed her foot even farther in her mouth and asked, what’s it like?