Blackfeather Woods the end

actively crying ;; i love you and maegi forever

Jakoul had followed at a distance.

They had slipped back easily into a Morta, not a second thought as the woodlands were crossed and the trail of Maegi weaved to and fro. Jakoul did not know why they were here. Only that she herself had returned a number of times too.

But she had been warned long ago.

Maegi was dying.

She did not think today was the day she would die, though.

Today was another day as any other in the small world of Jakoul. Although Maegi was also very much her whole world. These woods had molded her too. Gave her a backbone of iron and the charms of a serpent. She had seen greatness and tragedy in this place.

The latter came for her today as the trail of Maegi seemed to cease.

Her body the only thing left.

Jakoul stared blankly for a few moments. Another poppy seed haze, another tired moment where the woman simply needed a break. But there was no rise and fall to the sides or chest of Maegi. There was nothing that indicated the woman was truly here besides her body.

Jakoul blinked.

Creeping forward, her gut clenched tightly into her ribs. A low whine in her throat with the hopes that Maegi would respond. A mumbled drugged slew of words would be welcomed. Anything besides the sudden silence that swallowed the woods. Even the birds seemed stilled for a moment.

Only there was nothing still.

No amount of lowly whines or soft snips at tufts of fur seemed to stir the pale woman.

She knew very well that the time had come, but this was a thing she refused to believe. Curling herself around the cooling body and wracked with soft tremors as a sudden wave of sobbing escaped her. It blossomed and bloomed into an anguished cry as if her own soul had departed this plane as well. A sound unlike anything she had ever made in her entire life.

And when her throat felt too raw to continue, she cried no more. Only closed her eyes tightly as she remained in place.

Holding the body of Maegi Melonii tight.

Love Maegi. Always.

Mumbled again and again, until she could no longer do that either.