Wavebreaker
|43 Moons|
As Wavebreaker locked his gaze with hers, he absorbed her growing confidence like a salve to his sickly soul. The subtle affections displayed in her eyes, like rippling pools sparkling under the moonlight drew him in. And he was sure then that the same feelings were reflected in his own. Every response in this moment, every purr felt as if it lasted a lifetime. It was all he ever really wanted, this connection. When she did not recoil from his touch his heart skipped a beat. In the empty desert of their previous arguments, this was the promised rain he knew was always on the horizon. But as the last words hung reverberating in the air he saw his hopes, listing perilously. Irisdream looked suddenly gobsmacked, like he had just ran her through with his own two claws.
Her lower lip was quivering, but the warrior could not discern if it was out of fear or anger. Wavebreaker did not allow his own body to shake as he was overcome with an immense feeling of loss. He tried to think, to speak... but nothing would come as he tensely observed his shell shocked partner. As she dropped the words
"How..." repeatedly like an elder who had seen to many leafbares, her sanity having fled the safety of their earlier moment of tenderness. Her pale colors shivered and tremored like an agitated blizzard. Before he knew it Irisdream had turned away sprinting in the opposite direction, putting their age old distance between them once again.
"Why!?..." The words escaped his mouth unwillingly, and tinted by the gratings of his sadness and frustration. He was unsure if Irisdream had even heard him.
Wavebreaker stood motionless under the tall oak for several seconds till the flood of emotions overcame his shock and he was forced to pace back and forth around the mighty landmark. He began tentatively digging his claws anxiously into the earth in an effort to let out the strangling energies contained within his massive form. He felt his mind racing
What did I say? I didn't mean to.... I didn't want to hurt her like that. Choked with grief the tom began ramming into the old oak in penance. Striking it undeservedly just above where Irisdream had leveled her abuses on it.
"Stupid stupid stupid stupid." With each powerful strike against the wood he uttered another beration. Eventually silence settled, only the wind, leaves, and crickets keeping him company.
That is until a familiar yowl split the air snapping him back to his senses.
Irisdream! Wavebreaker flung himself in the direction which she had sped off. His heart was racing as he tailed her scent, and glanced her rough clawmarks which had torn the earth revealing her presence. He skidded to a halt just before a river where the tracks disappeared, and peered across to see the disheveled form of his former lover on the opposite bank. Her beautiful fur dripped and hung low from her shivering body like a bristling porcupine that he dared not approach. He felt his heavy breaths staggering into his body as he stood muted, watching Irisdream stare into the sky. He wanted to be relieved she was okay, but Wavebreaker knew that somehow she wasn't he just didn't know why.
He just couldn't process his thoughts though, around her he was always a muddled mess, nothing like the cats he tried to emulate. He summoned all the strength in his chest and all the courage in his soul.
"Irisdream.. Why, what did I say what can I do..." His voice was shackled by both apprehension for how his words would affect her, and concern for her well being.
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Luna16