FA+
Shop
The Great Flood - Healing (pt 10)
3 years ago
General
“Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.”
- Samuel Johnson
- Samuel Johnson
♡ ✐ ♡ ✎ ♡ ✐ ♡ ✎ ♡ ✐ ♡ ✎♡ ✐ ♡ ✎ ♡ ✐ ♡ ✎ ♡ ✐ ♡ ✎ ♡ ✐ ♡ ✎ ♡ ✐ ♡ ✎ ♡ ✐ ♡ ✎ ♡ Though they didn’t know the face of the boy, they knew that he was their doctor’s brother, which meant that he was certain to be another wolf. Deciding their best chance to locate him and avoid being restrained by the adults, the children decided to split up. They gave the doctors the slip and ran throughout the ship, trying to find the boy with the mystical abilities. But, unlike the young ones, Night had an advantage in that he knew his brother’s scent and easily picked it up as soon as he boarded the boat. With this lead, he was able to quickly track him down and found him in a cabin along with his son, Tod.
Tod, an older lion cub, was holding his lupine brother in a desperate attempt to comfort him. Shade looked as though he was falling apart and in physical agony. He was sitting on his bed, hunched over, his long tresses of black hair cascading over his face and shoulders. He was clutching his head, his eyes were wide, and he was shaking so violently that it was causing Tod to shake, too. His breathing was labored and his eyes darted every which way throughout the tiny cabin. But, hough Night was able to locate him quickly, he was not the first one to arrive.
A bright red girl with long, flowing white hair was kneeling before the little black and white wolf, beseeching him in earnest. “Do you see my mother, or my father, or my sisters?” she cried. “They all left us, we’re all alone. Are my parents here? Can you see them? Please, can you see them?!” she begged.
Night sighed. His heart ached for the girl, but he could see that his brother was on the verge of suffering a breakdown. He was definitely overwhelmed and he wondered if he had even heard the girl as she was begging for his help. Likewise, Tod didn’t know what to do. The girl was grieving and in pain, almost tangibly so. He wanted to help her, but his brother was of greater concern to him and in that moment, he was in no condition to help ease her suffering, let alone his own.
Just then, he looked up and saw that rescue had come. “Night!” he cried, gently shaking Shade to let him know that help had arrived.
Tod, an older lion cub, was holding his lupine brother in a desperate attempt to comfort him. Shade looked as though he was falling apart and in physical agony. He was sitting on his bed, hunched over, his long tresses of black hair cascading over his face and shoulders. He was clutching his head, his eyes were wide, and he was shaking so violently that it was causing Tod to shake, too. His breathing was labored and his eyes darted every which way throughout the tiny cabin. But, hough Night was able to locate him quickly, he was not the first one to arrive.
A bright red girl with long, flowing white hair was kneeling before the little black and white wolf, beseeching him in earnest. “Do you see my mother, or my father, or my sisters?” she cried. “They all left us, we’re all alone. Are my parents here? Can you see them? Please, can you see them?!” she begged.
Night sighed. His heart ached for the girl, but he could see that his brother was on the verge of suffering a breakdown. He was definitely overwhelmed and he wondered if he had even heard the girl as she was begging for his help. Likewise, Tod didn’t know what to do. The girl was grieving and in pain, almost tangibly so. He wanted to help her, but his brother was of greater concern to him and in that moment, he was in no condition to help ease her suffering, let alone his own.
Just then, he looked up and saw that rescue had come. “Night!” he cried, gently shaking Shade to let him know that help had arrived.
I'm minded of a quip my brother-in-law made some years back at the Philadelphia Folk Festival. Viewing the acres of tie-dye wearing folks, he wisecracked, "I see Dead people!"