Duskfire Glacier universe everything's wrong

Last post for me <3 Let's wrap this puppy up!

Even though Tuwawi was bereft with loss and pained by her capture, Maera's acceptance granted respite. Her daughter flew back into an embrace without hesitation, face flushed with hot tears. Tuwawi's neck arched to hold her there, teeth gingerly combing through the fiery locks of her daughters crown. She crooned hushed nothings to Maera as she became wracked with lament, broken down to the very core by their equally troubled past. Their reunion was poignant and divine, though steeped with tragedy, and the wood felt silent in sad observation of such burdened beasts.

They stayed that way for some time, Tuwawi letting her daughter cry into her mane while rocking to and fro. Though Maera would not see it, tears burned her mother's cheeks, too. She was hopelessly sad, despite the optimistic we'll manage she had told Malachi. Manage was only about half of what Tuwawi could muster. At what point had she stopped living and started merely surviving?

"My baby girl," Tuwawi whispered as Maera openly wept, a warm dampness matting the finer hairs of her mother's shoulder. The ember groomed her ears softly, finding solace in her company. They had endured pain separately thus far, but would hopefully mend together, reunited as rekindled flames of Duskfire.