Serpent Lake enjarocharse

safe, against his heart. safe in the arms she wished she was able to remember. safe — blood rushing in even thump beneath her ear. "no. i think —" not now. not riverclan. there was a great leap to be made and she was unsure if there was strength within her to make it. staying within akashingo was safe, but now she was unsure that she might remember forever the things he had said. thus her place among the royals would be unsettled. unnatural. she could not remember her children and that damned her heart far worse than any other thing. but akavir — he had made of himself a pillar for that recollection, and thus hope for more. perhaps in time these things might come back to her — and if they did not. if they did not — her chin lifted, her eyes climbing to find his own. "take me to your home and call me what i was." and her breath rushed in pounding gasps, hope and a deep fear flooding all her veins like rust.