Moonspear [m] Stolen Light

For @Alaric. Backdated to March 15th.

Elentari's world was crumbling around her. First, the horrific attack on her son. His wounds healed but she wondered of his spirit. Then the death of Talisman. Argent's return and finally, his departure. 

He no longer walked among the Moonspear wolves. He had chosen another life. A life without Elentari and Sialuk. 

At first, she was angry. Angry his disloyalty, for his affair in his absence. Angry that he was leaving behind Acrux, Maggak and Sialuk. How was she to explain to the children why Argent, their father, chose to leave? Chose to turn his back on his son.

Then, she accepted it, quietly. She could not blame the man entirely. Sialuk had lain with others this season, just as the one before. Her ways were not strictly monogamous. He couldn't be faulted. But Elentari...

She stayed true, despite the feelings growing inside her heart towards Alaric. As often as she had cast an admiring eye to the dark man, even when she hugged herself so tight the day he returned her son to them, she did not cross the forbidden boundary.

She felt betrayed. Now also free and so very alone.

As she skirted through the mountain pathways towards Alaric's ulaq, she recited the heartfelt talk she shared with Sialuk a while ago. Of her confessions. No longer tied down by fear of guilt, but weighted by a bruised heart, she sought the healer now. 

She could not deny her feelings any longer, or keep them from him. Even if she was rejected, at least he would know.