Hotaru
i'm still here but all is lost
Eventually the woman lets her other shift take over her body, feline figure padding silent across coarse, gritty earth. That is how she hears them - the duality of a two-legged creature walking in step with a four-legged one. Usually that means a companion, and thus it is not a source of food unfortunately. Still, she creeps close enough to sate her curiously; it may kill the cat, but you know what they say about satisfaction. Sah is certainly not who she was expecting. So far from the icy reaches of the Citadel where last she saw him. Where she was certain her last memory of him would lie. For a moment she falters, pebbles skittering out from under her paws in a way that would surely alert his bonded, but Ru can’t fault herself for the slip up. She has missed him, and yet she is trying to harden her heart against those who had so easily left her behind, forgotten and discarded. The Valkyrie lingers for a moment, staring down at the pair, tail flicking low and slow behind her crouched figure. Until at last she transforms and descends towards them, clad once more in a light dress that the arid wind whips around her legs in a dance of color. She had at least remembered to dress for the climate.
Moving closer, wary but hopeful, Hotaru still can’t help the instinctive need to scan him for injuries as she approaches. “Sah?” Ru isn’t mistaken - she has never forgotten a face - but perhaps he has forgotten hers.
