Hideaway Strath Return to the stars

It was anticlimactic and she deflated slowly though she was delighted that he accepted her presence she sagged slowly and turned to look at the dark, still form that was Mars upon the ground. Her eyes saddened and she looked over to him "Go..I'll catch up" she said softly not wanting to hold him back any more. She couldn't leave her brother laying there like that, her mind just beginning to process that he had made the final sacrifice to keep her safe and happy. He had brought her here, to a new band of Sahira's and she supposed he deserved the eternal rest he had now. "I can't leave him there like that" she said and moved to Mars, grabbing his cold scruff and tugging with failed efforts to move him at least beneath a tree instead of the open where he'd be picked at by birds and other predators.