She listened to Zilas’s words, visibly flitching at what he had said, claimed happened to her, oh how little he knew it was so far from the truth. She waited, biting her tongue as he went on, confessing that he had killed someone, that all this time he was nothing but an empty shell walking, deserving nothing but pain and death. When he told her to shut up, she flinched again, tears forming around her hazel gaze as the small wolf gave a shake of her head, his words stirring old memories, ones that had been buried deep within the girl’s psyche as a pup, abandoned and forgotten, but flooding forward now.
“That’s where you’re wrong, I didn’t have a happy family ZIlas, it was the opposite, You've seen people die, but have you ever watched the only two wolves who ever showed any love for you die in front of you, unable to help them while they withered and foamed? Your own father being bitten by your only friend as he tried to help him, the cold emotionless woman who you wanted to call mom, but you never truly could because she didn't see you as a daughter? But the runt of a litter where the only two she may have loved died so young? Siblings you never even met because they were too weak to survive, and yet you own mother who thrived on survival couldn’t see that YOU tried so hard to be what she wanted? And it never got you anything, nothing but her teaching you enough to survive before vanishing into the night?” she paused, shaking slightly as she looked directly at the white wolf, tears rolling down her cheeks “I became who I am because of it Zilas, you trying being a young girl thrown into the deep forest with no guidance, a constant consuming guilt that there is something you could have done to get her to stay, but no, the very wolf who gave me life left me because I was too weak for her standards, I didn’t have a happy family, I watched the only two who cared about me die.”
She stepped away from Zilas, shaking her tear stained muzzle at him “I do see Zilas, you see a broken soul, I see one mending, you see the scars from when you fell, I see the stories they're gonna tell, you see too far gone but I see...I see one who’s one step away from home.” She paused, taking a deep breath “Others may have abandoned you ZIlas..but I’m not, your not too far gone, you're not just damaged goods..I see something good in the making, Zilas, you only see your mistakes, but I see more...you might only see yourself through eyes of guilt, unworthy, undeserving..but I see you though more… I see you through eyes of mercy.”
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