Firefly Glen it can change you

She didn’t press, as it wasn’t her place, but instead offered him a gentle smile—a silent gesture of understanding born from circumstances that may differ, but shared a similar sorrow. She, too, had something to lose, only to have it taken away. Her thoughts briefly shifted from Andr and Iaghe to her own lost memories.

Dainty paws paused just beyond his reach, her gaze never leaving his. Bowing her head, she spoke softly. “I am sorry for what you have lost. I do hope the weight of it is not too great, but if it is, you don’t have to carry it alone. We all deserve a little kindness, don’t we?”

How she longed for someone to offer her the same—someone to guide and ground her before she floated away once more. Some days, that’s how it felt—like she drifted here on an angry storm-cloud, losing all her memories in its rage, only to have them dumped into the sea.

Who had she been before this? What made Fleurette who she was, and would she ever return to the person she once was? Did she even want to? Or did she long for a new story?

To become something broken and made anew?

“Yes.” Whether she meant to answer herself or the man, it did not matter; the answer came swiftly, as if the presence of this man gave her strength. She may have seemed like a living storm-cloud herself, but within her, the storm began to fade, replaced by the warmth of something rising in her heart.

A kindling forming at a hearth. The sun bidding farewell to the moon as it begins its rise across the skies. Her eyes brightened with hope.

“You are right.” Her smile grew from the building inferno in her breast. “I don’t know if I will ever remember my past, or find the ones I have lost, but I do know that I want to build a new future. And I also know that you—“ she closed the distance between them, “will be okay. I can feel it…right here.” Her gaze dropped down to the space between them, a paw hovering just over where his heart beat.

“I am Fleur.” Eyes slowly lifting upwards to meet his once more. “What do I call you?”