the wolves will chase you by the pale moonlight
{drunk and driven by the devil's hunger}
In his mind’s eye, his family tree is very much an alive and active thing. He sometimes likes to close his eyes and trace it, following along the roots of it, reaching outward to the different offshoots and branches. Some branches were heavier than others, the relatives busy with their lives and with lust, their offspring multiplying faster than he could comprehend. Other branches were quiet, lonely, slowly withering and then turning to ash. He never quite understood that either. How one family could be so different?
He felt her enter into the meadow before he saw her, and although he dove into the depths of his relatives he couldn’t find her—and yet, yet, he felt that unmistakable tie. That same pull as if she was one of his own. It puzzled him, and he frowned, his emerald eyes opening beneath the wild tangles of his forelock to see her. She was golden and sure-footed as she walked and although something stirred in the back of his mind, almost like a memory, he still could not place her. He could not name her familiarity.
Disliking the uncertainty, he moved toward her, shedding the shadows, as he made his way confidently to her. He was intimidating in presence, towering at 17 hands, his body thickly built, feathers around his strong legs. But it was the glint in his eye that was the most dangerous, the hiss of magic in his movements, as he came to a stop, tilting his head to consider her. “Nairne,” he liked to pluck their names from their minds, from the tapestry of thoughts that hung so heavily around them.
Her sadness was thick in the air. While he did not understand it, he found he disliked it. Why did so many souls hand themselves over to sorrow that wrecked their lives? Why did they allow themselves to become consumed by thoughts that dragged them down? “No amount of sadness will bring the Falls back,” he mused, tilting his mulberry head, “although I suppose nothing is stopping you from continuing to try.”
Woolf
it was lovely! <3
