im officially back y’all — recovery time has passed! I’ll be getting caught up in the next few days but this particular thread is to explain what Lótë’s been up to with Wil since she disappeared from MG. :) I’m not sure what date would work best but this is set for some time between Nov. 17-19ish? Whatever works best for everybody’s timelines. @Kukutux @Aiolos @Sialuk (also any other MG members who might be traveling with the pack are welcome too: @Shikoba @Kigipigak @Foxfur @Inutsuk @Nyra (really looking forward to threading with you once again btw! <3) @Xynos @War @Kausiut @Samani. gonna be vague about her injuries since I’ve not had a chance to start that thread yet but Lótë has been attacked by a bear and will have several deep gouges on her left haunch. After being attacked in the Sunspire area, she would have fled north to make her way around the mountains back to MG’s territory.
aiwë had flown too far from her nest.
the loss of one child had wrent her soul into a mangled mess of infectious terror, bleeding into every thought with the inescapable grip of paralysis. the second had driven her from the embrace of ouroboros and the village, even from the nestlings that had remained in their clan’s circle.
pale specters haunted her peripherals, ghosts that went shunned. the spiritbear was not truly there, the exhausted fragment of her mind rationalized even if to look upon the mirage directly still struck her heart with a dagger of petrifaction. they whispered of inkalorë as they danced in her line of sight, of how the white tupilak had stolen the precious little ones he so scorned. lótë would not have put it beyond the reach of horrible deeds he could commit.
”come, butterfly,” the cloudberry rasped falteringly to the child she had recovered, though she could not bend to bump her chin to wilwarin’s shoulder as she might have wished. it took all effort to remain on her feet — the three that remained steady. she did not wish to look back at what hindered the fourth; it was an all too frightening reminder that they may not make it home.
”we will find the little creatures — those whom the great spirit have called to sleep in winter’s arms. they will fill our bellies,” she continued on in the tongue of the land named starward. it seemed a great thing to shape the words with her tongue.
an even greater concentration of will to paw clumsily through one of the many diminutive dunes of snow that blanketed the wide expanse of the field in search of hibernating game. lótë feared to stop. she feared she would not rise again. each time, it grew harder as the hot, tight skin of her left flank swelled and stretched with the bear’s mark.
even that too was pushed aside in favor of adrenaline.
she had failed ink. lómion and vairë too, for not being there when they needed their mother. she could not fail her youngest daughter too.
it was with a brave face and forced smile that mother dove smothered the pain, a talent she was newly discovering with the trials of the past moon phases, to scour something they might eat before trudging onwards.
the loss of one child had wrent her soul into a mangled mess of infectious terror, bleeding into every thought with the inescapable grip of paralysis. the second had driven her from the embrace of ouroboros and the village, even from the nestlings that had remained in their clan’s circle.
pale specters haunted her peripherals, ghosts that went shunned. the spiritbear was not truly there, the exhausted fragment of her mind rationalized even if to look upon the mirage directly still struck her heart with a dagger of petrifaction. they whispered of inkalorë as they danced in her line of sight, of how the white tupilak had stolen the precious little ones he so scorned. lótë would not have put it beyond the reach of horrible deeds he could commit.
”come, butterfly,” the cloudberry rasped falteringly to the child she had recovered, though she could not bend to bump her chin to wilwarin’s shoulder as she might have wished. it took all effort to remain on her feet — the three that remained steady. she did not wish to look back at what hindered the fourth; it was an all too frightening reminder that they may not make it home.
”we will find the little creatures — those whom the great spirit have called to sleep in winter’s arms. they will fill our bellies,” she continued on in the tongue of the land named starward. it seemed a great thing to shape the words with her tongue.
an even greater concentration of will to paw clumsily through one of the many diminutive dunes of snow that blanketed the wide expanse of the field in search of hibernating game. lótë feared to stop. she feared she would not rise again. each time, it grew harder as the hot, tight skin of her left flank swelled and stretched with the bear’s mark.
even that too was pushed aside in favor of adrenaline.
she had failed ink. lómion and vairë too, for not being there when they needed their mother. she could not fail her youngest daughter too.
it was with a brave face and forced smile that mother dove smothered the pain, a talent she was newly discovering with the trials of the past moon phases, to scour something they might eat before trudging onwards.
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lvi. ‘cause all that remains - by Lótë - November 15, 2021, 10:15 PM
RE: lvi. ‘cause all that remains - by Kigipigak - November 16, 2021, 12:10 PM
RE: lvi. ‘cause all that remains - by Lótë - November 16, 2021, 07:15 PM
RE: lvi. ‘cause all that remains - by Kukutux - November 17, 2021, 11:05 AM
RE: lvi. ‘cause all that remains - by Kigipigak - November 17, 2021, 10:34 PM
RE: lvi. ‘cause all that remains - by Lótë - November 18, 2021, 10:55 AM
RE: lvi. ‘cause all that remains - by Kukutux - November 18, 2021, 02:05 PM
RE: lvi. ‘cause all that remains - by Aiolos - November 18, 2021, 11:08 PM
RE: lvi. ‘cause all that remains - by Kigipigak - November 23, 2021, 03:35 PM
RE: lvi. ‘cause all that remains - by Kukutux - December 09, 2021, 12:13 AM