Fox's Glade [m] glued back together again

her name. he asked after her name, and yakone was so overcome by emotion that she could do nothing but burst into quiet, sudden tears. oh, how she longed to tell him; in a whisper, in a shout, in a song. she would have given anything, in that moment, for a single word to slip past the invisible barrier which had held them back for so long.
yakone, she wanted to tell him. my name is yakone. how long had it been since she'd heard her own name?
she blinked the tears away and sought to bury her face in her lover's fur. only silence and tears served to answer his question.