Too much to think about...
[ooc: sorry it took so damn long, but then exams tend to put all thoughts out of the mind... (well, a lot of thoughts, the less important ones get relegated to the dustbin of the back of the mind...) Anyway. I thought I'd just put that last bit from the "Recovering" topic on here, as it ended up being a whole two lines long. Bleaugh.]
She’d stared after him, in the direction he’d run, a strange feeling in her chest, barely heeding the questions of the soldier who’d appeared and ‘scared’ the red crossbreed away…
//Oh Odd…// she thought, with a peculiar sense of dismay and delight. //I think I’m in love.//
Aurora sat in her tree, and sighed. The soldier who’d carried her back had been oddly uninterested in her, for once, which she was thankful about, as she’d felt too stunned to want to have to fight off amorous males…
Over the past day or two she’d not really done a lot. Alternated between the canopy branches of the big tree Blue’s house was in, and inside, to try to get some sleep, but her mind was in turmoil. She hadn’t slept a lot over the past few days, and those few hours she’d managed to snatch certainly hadn’t been undisturbed… dark dreams prowled in her sleep. So now she was back in the tree. The wind brought the promise of rain with it – and the sultry purple clouds on the horizon backed that up. She watched the clouds drift in, flaked out on a branch, mind doing backflips, and re-running the events that had transpired a day or two before.
Dammit, she didn’t want to be in love…! Especially with… with him… She sighed, softly, still not sure of the conflicting feelings in her heart, and crossed her arms under her chin. Why does life always sneak up on you when you least expect it and throw you right off the tracks…?
As usual, she lost track of how long she lay up there, watching the clouds; she hardly noticed it when the rain started to patter down. The commotion going on out on the outskirts – she could just about hear it – briefly snagged her attention, as it sounded like Spider was back out, but… didn’t hold her interest for long. She sighed. It’d be nice to have Jan to argue with again, to bounce some terrible scenaria off him, and for him to tell her she was being stupid, nothing like that was ever going to happen, now stop worrying. Then she could go back to sleep.
Eventually the rain slowed to a drizzle. She gave her head a shake, shook the water off her muzzle, and dropped back down through the window, trailing water inside. She went straight over to where she slept, and fished around under the mattress… aha, there it was, the little pale violet cloth bag she kept her few treasures in, still safe. Good. She slung it across her shoulders, briefly checked all three Stones were inside, and headed out forest-wards, hoping this would have the desired effect and take her mind off… things. She wanted, for once, to practice.
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