09-01-2021, 09:48 PM
I'll taste the sky and feel alive again
"Congratulations, your Highness," Reynard thrummed in the back of his throat, eyes gleaming golden when they landed on his twin. He had made his appearance in Loess to watch the crown be placed on her jeweled head, and returned to the redwood trees when it was done.
She was busy, a queen stretching to fill out the mantle on her back and he watched her do it with style. Wasn't that how they'd always been? @Cheri, shining and brilliant wherever she went, while he blended into the background and did his best to fill shoes he hadn't been expecting to wear. Ever, let alone now.
It didn't change the fact that he was now running the patrols his sire had. Walking through the trees, wondering where his parents had gone and if they'd ever come back. Quietly and without fuss, he picked up the dropped thread and followed it as best he could.
Today that brought him back to his twin, the shining girl who looked so much like their mother. It hurt to look at her, if he was being honest. Still, he smiled and moved to brush his nose to hers. A scent as familiar as his own infiltrated his mind.
"I've missed seeing you around the forest," he said as he pulled away, knowing that it had been so much longer than this last year that they had been apart. Life had been pulling them in opposite directions for as long as he could remember now.
Reynard