It wouldn’t be long, now. She had to make it to her destination.
The female hound regretted being unable to hunt for so long. Now, she was paying the dire consequences. Without food, her deteriorating body had no energy to sustain itself. Thanks to her lack of care, the process had only sped up. Soon, she would join the ranks of the truly dead. She just hoped all she had done with her second life had not been in vain.
Finally, her body could take no more. Giving in to her weakness, her legs gave out from under her. There she lay, in the middle of the forest she used to consider home. That is, until she met her boy. He once offered her his home, as if he would take her in to be a pet. Not just some infected hound, but his hound.
But now, that would be gone.
Slowly, Candid forced herself forward. She tried to scoot herself along, dragging her body across the forest floor. Leaves and mud mixed in with her torn fur and muscle, but she didn’t care. She had to make sure no one would ever find her. Especially her boy.
He needs to just forget about me. He mustn’t find me. Never.
Eventually, she came across what appeared to be a thick pile of leaves and debris. Some sort of primal paranoia enveloped her, and she sighed low under her breath. That would have to do. Soon, she wouldn’t even be able to go any further. Carefully, she nosed her way through the thick debris, trying to get the majority of her body under the cold, rough blanket. Now... She would rest.
Though she knew she had done all she could, she did not want to close her eyes. Honestly, she found herself being truly afraid for the first time. Her flayed ears pressed back against her head as she whimpered, finally allowing her weakness to fully show itself. I don’t want to go. I want to stay with Steve. I want to stay with my-
She saw herself, sitting in a living room. She was completely normal, now. No sign of the infection could be seen upon her body, lit up beside the fireplace. Her eyes were shut, but she could just barely hear a soft female voice, singing along to the sound of the crackling fire.
“You are my sunshine, my only sunshine...”
Her mind seemed to flash, blinking out for a mere instant, before she saw herself sitting beside a lonely male. Rain poured from above, soaking the doberman’s silky fur. The man was crouched down, sad, grey eyes watching only a thick stone in the ground. All the doberman could feel was the immense sadness that he felt as he gently touched the stone, before tears slid down his cheeks and mixed with the rain. His own personal chorus of pain and misery.
“You make me happy, when skies are grey...”
Now, the hound found herself with a collar around her throat, and a man in a suit holding onto her leash. The sad man from before merely looked down at her, a look in his eyes showing nothing but hurt. The doberman could feel only betrayal as the man in the suit dragged her away, and ears back as she yelped and whined for her once master to come back for her. That’s when she felt her heart break for the first time.
“You’ll never know dear, how much I love you...”
Candid slowly lowered her head onto her paws, her glassy eyes focusing on nothing. Those were some of the memories she had never before remembered, and had never hoped to remember. Funny, how that happens... I guess that’s my parting gift, huh?
Slowly, she shut her eyes, and allowed herself to go limp. The soft breeze of air circulated around her, until she could hear and feel nothing. Soon, her body finally shut down completely, and she could only greet the darkness with an open mind.
“Please don’t take, my sunshine away...”
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