"Why would--" The words hurt, as though she had spent an entire age in silence and her throat had forgotten the sensation of sound. K'piru choked, coughed, could not pull her gaze away from the dunes ahead. Her ears shivered, straining along with her nose as she sought for signs of her approaching family. "Why would you say such things?"
She hadn't noticed K'ile's approach, was numb to his touch on her arm, and though she had heard his voice, she wondered if perhaps he was not really there at all. Perhaps none of them had come back, and she had called up the sound and scent of her mate's brother as a messenger of a nightmare.
"Why would you say such things," she repeated, voice low and tenuous. The blue-white light of the moon through lingering smoke cast odd shadows on her upturned face. "They'll come back. I am waiting for them. They'll come back."
She hadn't noticed K'ile's approach, was numb to his touch on her arm, and though she had heard his voice, she wondered if perhaps he was not really there at all. Perhaps none of them had come back, and she had called up the sound and scent of her mate's brother as a messenger of a nightmare.
"Why would you say such things," she repeated, voice low and tenuous. The blue-white light of the moon through lingering smoke cast odd shadows on her upturned face. "They'll come back. I am waiting for them. They'll come back."
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"Song dogs barking at the break of dawn, lightning pushes the edges of a thunderstorm; and these streets, quiet as a sleeping army, send their battered dreams to heaven."
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