Stone Circle einn

I can fade this and start us a new one :)

He feared that a day would come when she would not hold him like this anymore. He wished to stay forever a child, small enough to be tucked away alongside her, where he could hide in her shadow and cling to her for security. He could tell even then that he was growing too big for this sort of treatment, and he hated himself for it. He did not want to be big, or adult, like the others in the pack. He wanted to stay small and puppyish forever. 

"Love you too, little Tauris," He said, though his voice was quiet, distant. 

He felt the dying days of his youth were near; and whether or not he liked it, adulthood would reach him one way or another.