Come Back
~ ZEV ~
It had been an insane night. And an insane few months. An insane lifetime. And it was all coming to a head in just a few hours.
At some point as the others all scattered to eat, to find their mates, to prepare, as Sasha sat with the wet nurse to watch over Zan for his meal, Zev found the tension of being under eyes almost unbearable.
He started to walk at first just to move, to try and relieve some of the tension in his body. But he found himself soon turning with a purpose… and eventually stepped into the small clearing where Skhal had found him and Zan the night before.
The never-silence of the forest around them—bird calls, the rustle of the breeze in the trees overhead, the scratch and skitter of wildlife—called him like the truest quiet. It was the sound of his soul, and for a while he simply sat in it and tried to breathe.