Noctisardor Bypass bury me inside this labyrinth bed

heda lifted silent prayer to her god; for her life, for her son’s visions and health, for her daughters. ava’s attention focused on ezra, who fought the good fight but in the end, succumbed the way they all did. with a quiet series of tiny yawns. 

ava was not so tired. she rose and stepped lightly over the now sleeping ezra. she butted her head affectionately against that of her mother’s, and then ducked under the eaves of the den’s exit. 

better they rest than she. 

another sharp sting wracked the back of her brain — she ignored it, deciding she would patrol the pack’s eastern promontory before bed.