asdfghjk thank you <3 I'm sorry I never saw this! Life's been a bit crazy for me since I started the new school year. The work has been waaay more demanding and I just kind of got caught up and all the work kinda fried my muse. I'm really sorry I keep doing this :c I'm making it a new year's resolution to properly honour my commitments and this counts as one! I hope everything's okay with you c:
I might just say the pups also disappeared for now, if not just to make Kohana more upset mwahaha.
He woke up with a start. He had been dreaming but he could not remember what about. He tried to grasp it, a fleeting image of what he had experienced that had caused him to wake up so suddenly but after a few moments of trying her realied it was futile. He would not be able to recollect it. Instead he rose from his empty nest and exited his empty den into the empty clearing.
Expect it wasn't empty. Coal was already up, too. She had seemed sad lately (he suspected he knew why) and so he decided that today's mission was to cheer her up. He was Alpha, after all, and he considered it part of his job to ensure every member of the pack experienced their fair share of joy. He trusted his sister and Kyo to conduct themselves sensibly if strayed from the clearing.
Never one to approach quietly, Kohana started towards the pool at a lope and leapt into the water with amusingly little grace, diving to the bottom, pushing against the riverbed with his forepaws and quickly resurfacing, coming face to face with Coal. "Good morning!" He chirped, all thoughts of cold lonely nights safely out of the front of his mind, "How would you like to hunt with me today? If we could get a deer we'd be able to feed Taima and Kyo too." He beamed at her, allowing the water to wash all worried and thoughts about forgotten dreams from his body as he awaited her response.
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She woke up slowly, drifting into consciousness as she become aware of the light against her eyelids, of the lack of the warm shape of her mate next to her. She shifted with a sleepy mumurr, expecting to come into contact with him again by shuffling over a few inches. Still nothing. With a stifled grumble she realised this meant it was time for her to get up and so she peeled her emerald eyes open carefully, blinking into the sunlight filtering through the cavern and bathing it in a warm glow.
It took her a while to actually stand up, longer than it usually did. She did not usually stay up so late, nor were her nights - or her days - usually so draining. She had to glanced down at her chest to see if the crystal was still there. Sure enough there it was, glittering in the sun's rays.
Though it took her a while to stand up it did not take her long to locate her mate. He seemed to be struggling to... walk outside? Had something happened, another side effect of last night or had his eyesight not returned? Approaching him carefully so as not to frighten him, she came up beside him and laid a tail on his shoulders. "This way," she instructed carefully, leading him into the daylight. It seemed to be around late morning though she couldn't tell by one quick glance upwards.
She turned her attention back to Kyo, leading him further out the cave. "Are you alright? Is it your eyesight or something else?" she asked with concern, leaning over to nuzzle his shoulder briefly. She did not realise the side-effects would last this long.
I might just say the pups also disappeared for now, if not just to make Kohana more upset mwahaha.
He woke up with a start. He had been dreaming but he could not remember what about. He tried to grasp it, a fleeting image of what he had experienced that had caused him to wake up so suddenly but after a few moments of trying her realied it was futile. He would not be able to recollect it. Instead he rose from his empty nest and exited his empty den into the empty clearing.
Expect it wasn't empty. Coal was already up, too. She had seemed sad lately (he suspected he knew why) and so he decided that today's mission was to cheer her up. He was Alpha, after all, and he considered it part of his job to ensure every member of the pack experienced their fair share of joy. He trusted his sister and Kyo to conduct themselves sensibly if strayed from the clearing.
Never one to approach quietly, Kohana started towards the pool at a lope and leapt into the water with amusingly little grace, diving to the bottom, pushing against the riverbed with his forepaws and quickly resurfacing, coming face to face with Coal. "Good morning!" He chirped, all thoughts of cold lonely nights safely out of the front of his mind, "How would you like to hunt with me today? If we could get a deer we'd be able to feed Taima and Kyo too." He beamed at her, allowing the water to wash all worried and thoughts about forgotten dreams from his body as he awaited her response.
--
She woke up slowly, drifting into consciousness as she become aware of the light against her eyelids, of the lack of the warm shape of her mate next to her. She shifted with a sleepy mumurr, expecting to come into contact with him again by shuffling over a few inches. Still nothing. With a stifled grumble she realised this meant it was time for her to get up and so she peeled her emerald eyes open carefully, blinking into the sunlight filtering through the cavern and bathing it in a warm glow.
It took her a while to actually stand up, longer than it usually did. She did not usually stay up so late, nor were her nights - or her days - usually so draining. She had to glanced down at her chest to see if the crystal was still there. Sure enough there it was, glittering in the sun's rays.
Though it took her a while to stand up it did not take her long to locate her mate. He seemed to be struggling to... walk outside? Had something happened, another side effect of last night or had his eyesight not returned? Approaching him carefully so as not to frighten him, she came up beside him and laid a tail on his shoulders. "This way," she instructed carefully, leading him into the daylight. It seemed to be around late morning though she couldn't tell by one quick glance upwards.
She turned her attention back to Kyo, leading him further out the cave. "Are you alright? Is it your eyesight or something else?" she asked with concern, leaning over to nuzzle his shoulder briefly. She did not realise the side-effects would last this long.