Wheeling Gull Isle goodbye blue sky

AW but meant for @Coelacanth specifically <3

Last night, she'd dreamed of being cast up into the waves.

It was one of her greatest fears, to find herself beneath the surface, gasping for air, paws scrabbling in desperate futility against the current. She had almost drowned once before, and did not care to relive the experience. It was a stormy tempest, and lightning struck the sea, inches from her head. She went under, and all was darkness.

The tide came in, and she was washed into the bosom of Blackfeather Woods.

The ravens crowed around her, and the whispers of the daedra shivered through the trees. She was surrounded by roses, the thorns caressing her silky pelt. A warm feeling spread through her stomach, akin to happiness, and she looked down to find herself bleeding out from a gash along her belly into the flowers, a crimson blend. She felt happy and safe. She was home.

Maegi woke and sought Coelacanth, the images she had seen at the forefront of her mind. For she knew that her time here was coming to an end. The daedra had were finally reaching out to her--she needed to return home, to their domain. Only then, she thought, would the hole in her heart be filled.

She hobbled through the trees, a ghostly figure in the verdant paradise, and finally came to a halt in front of the Aralez's den. The girl gave a low chuff--tender, but not shy. She had no fear for what she was about to tell the woman, only a nagging feeling of guilt.

She knew what she had to say. . .but the knowledge didn't make it any less difficult.