: another life i'd always be there, another night of barely breathing [BIRTHING // DEATH]

but when the lights go out
i'll be listening, just stay

The months felt so long since she had met with Aeolus, the boy from Sabertooth. She was weak, the plague that overtook the earth clung to her as she fought for so long to keep her life in order to save the children in her from being born early. Yet she knew all to well that this would likely be the death of her. Her wings, once beautiful and glowing like a firefly's now tattered and damaged. She couldn't fly, she could hardly walk with the aches and fevers. She lived off of voles and mice as of late just to keep herself alive. Her life had become nothing but preserving her body as a vessel to produce the children in her womb.

The winter had become cold, freezing with the snow and ice that swept in from the north. Her sapphire eyes were glossy, tired. She wanted so badly to feel better, to give them a chance. A contraction made her grunt, a call out for help. They couldn't be born in the snow. No. She wobbled her way slowly to a makeshift den she had been using in the ash. She wheezed as she settled her aching body down, another contraction ripping through her as she let out a scream into the oncoming dawn.

Fade in, fade out . . .

The red witch felt happiness, bliss. Despite her sickness, despite her life force dying, she had done it. Her children were beautiful, healthy. Three of them. She let out a whine as she lifted her head, a faint call rang from her lips into the dawn for anyone to hear, to let them know of her children, and that they needed a mother. Her head fell to her paws as she breathed in and out shakily, her sapphires went to the two boys and the one girl at her belly. She smiled once more at them, her spots of light dimming - But theirs were bright. "Until we meet again, my sweet babies . . . I love you." A hitch in her voice sounded as her last exhaled left her lungs . . .

Walk, "Talk", Think.
WORDS :

another life i'd never understand
another night i'll give you all i can
i know i need you now more than i ever did

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