Drooping Willows Returned - Printable Version

Ra was not far from home. She could smell the members of her group vaguely, which only grew stronger still as she pressed forward slowly. Loach had been a mostly quiet companion on their venture to the lagoon but he was kind and patient with her slowness. Most other wolves were, either being by a truly good heart or by their pity, simply glad for that fact that it was not them who were blind. Though Ra understood the reason behind their pity, Ra had only been accepting and willing of the sacrifice of her vision of the mortal world, if only due to the gift it had given her in return. To her, this was far greater.

The hoped her group would understand. She hoped both @Hagar and her brother would. She knew @Niamh would without question. The gods had forced her to leave for a reason and hoped that vision could be played out into reality. Ra had learned that the western wolves lived along where the river split in the shadow of the mountains. Information now known but surely something which Clouse could relay, too. Where Loach had guided her and where she had started on her own was a middle ground then.

Here, in the Drooping Willows, she calls out for her family- she was coming home!

Her voice, it rang through the air! It was exactly the voice which Ra had longed to hear once more. Of course, she found family and blood in Avella and her children and cared for them dearly, but the connection between her and Naimh had swelled. First by their spiritual connection and then the time spent of Ra teaching Naimh of herbs and resting in the den where they were both limited of travel and kept one another from loneliness.

Niamh's legs move swiftly and soon she is upon Ra and they are dancing and bounding around one another in head-on greeting. Ra yips and barks happily. "Forgive my swift leave, Niamh. The Gods pushed upon me a path made to follow. I could not protest." She informed the woman for her days (maybe even more then a week?) gone missing. "They guided me to the wolves in the west- my brother's group lies there and a man named Loach which leads them."

Naimh is at her side and Ra is ready too, to answer all her questions, but Clouse comes swiftly! Ra had only expected such from her brother. It was the reason we he was here, so torn, in the first place. Clouse did not speak it, but Ra felt it. She felt a good deal many things greater then some.

He inspected her and she remained still, allowing him to do so as she explained. "The Gods shown me great mountains and much water and I followed." Clouse knew of them. He did not worship them, but did he at least believe? Believe his sister? "They brought me to Loach. His group is small, as is our own. I think we are meant to stand together as one. I saw in my visions then, a large group of wolves after a great hunt." But she frowns, lips pulling tight. Though the Gods shown her what she believed the best path not only for survival, but happiness, it was not her decision to make. It was that of Loach and Hagar.

There was silence, for a time and of course, she did not see that scowl he made, but the distance he now placed between himself and her seemed so very vast. Selfishly, Ra had not thought that perhaps Clouse did not want to share his other life with them. That he made only to be here in insuring Ra was comfortable and safe before leaving her again.

Niamh was not blind, however. She could openly see Clouse's distaste. It was first-hand an example of many around Ra not bothering to listen to her words when it came to gods.

Niamh spoke up in protest, pressing to Ra's side. Ra added, "And yet Avella has already left without him." She murmurs at the thought of her missing cousin. Avella was a strong woman, smart and loyal. It was unlikely she had just 'wondered off and gotten lost'. This meant she had either left her group on own accord or something rather tragic was keeping her from her family now. Ra hated to think which was worse.

"We will make Hagar see reason." The priestesses, together. Maybe they would need to make Clouse see reason too.