Ouroboros Spine Névé

The days had become warmer and longer - Kausiut found this to her liking. The joy of sunlight was enough to forget that moving around Moonglow's snow-clad forests and walking the icy, stone paths was a challenge to her. Few days ago she had slipped and fallen (not the first such incident), hitting her shoulder and thus making nearly impossible for her to move. You can't be a functional cripple if both weight-bearing legs are incapacitated. She had dragged herself back to her den and unable to reach anyone, who could help her, had lied there and waited for the pain to go away.

And with nothing better to do, she had slept and dreamt. Usually her dreams did not have any particular scenario - just a badly cut video of the events of the previous day. Interestingly enough, when that previous day was just the same as the present one and the one following after that, Kau's dream world changed its quality. She revisited the Walrus hunter shores, heard the rush of the water, the particular smell of sea air and how sand had felt beneath her paws. It felt so much more real than anything she had experienced before and there was a bit of disappointment to wake up to the silence of the forest and trees that towered over her. Again the feeling that this was not exactly the place she should be arouse, but there was nothing she could do about it.

If as a kid she had been convinced that nothing could stop her, then in her second year she was learning that the real life was all about limitations and very little about joy and what you wanted.

@Kukutux