I'll leave my love hidden in the sun
It was with the aftermath, as calm settled back down over the area, that the difficult part began for the starchild. The time it took them to rejoin the lioness meant that they arrived in the middle of her meal, and while for Umbra this meant nothing but a successful hunt... for Seren it was quite different.
The churned up snow, the blood splattered crimson on white and the tang of blood in the air. It was all new. Foreign things, because death had always seemed so far away. Even with Atlas it had been different. Fire may have twisted and consumed, but it had not displayed the raw, uncencored fragility of life in such a blatant manner.
Much like seeing Harper's bloodied and torn up palm had made her stomach churn, so too did this set her guts to roiling. Yet the girl did not turn away. She made herself look. At the blood. The dead hare in the snow, awaiting Umbra's pleasure. Seren even went so far as to link in with her companion's thoughts as he dove onto his share, so that the taste of salty blood and sweet meat might as well have been on her own tongue.
Only a soft shudder and slowly balled up fists showed that this was in any way difficult for her. To anyone who did not know her, she looked only calm... if a little distant. Perhaps Hotaru's sharpened eyesight might even make out the slightly green tinge of color about her mouth.
The churned up snow, the blood splattered crimson on white and the tang of blood in the air. It was all new. Foreign things, because death had always seemed so far away. Even with Atlas it had been different. Fire may have twisted and consumed, but it had not displayed the raw, uncencored fragility of life in such a blatant manner.
Much like seeing Harper's bloodied and torn up palm had made her stomach churn, so too did this set her guts to roiling. Yet the girl did not turn away. She made herself look. At the blood. The dead hare in the snow, awaiting Umbra's pleasure. Seren even went so far as to link in with her companion's thoughts as he dove onto his share, so that the taste of salty blood and sweet meat might as well have been on her own tongue.
Only a soft shudder and slowly balled up fists showed that this was in any way difficult for her. To anyone who did not know her, she looked only calm... if a little distant. Perhaps Hotaru's sharpened eyesight might even make out the slightly green tinge of color about her mouth.
For when the darkness comes
SEREN
