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A Moment of Peace || Rowan & Bryden

@twilightdarkandlovely

The little garden in the center of the Tower complex wasn’t as renewing as it could be. It was small, and there was still a feel of human interference, but it was well-tended and it was far better than nothing. If he had time, he’d go out to the forest, to the glen that had been his for time immeasurable, but there was a meeting he couldn’t miss. So for now he would content himself with the garden, which tried, bless it, reaching out to him in welcome. He smiled inwardly as he sat against the tree, listening to the murmur of the grass.

“Sit down,” he said, not opening his eyes even as he addressed the presence he felt at the edge of his consciousness. “Trust me. It’s good for all creatures to take a moment to reconnect with the earth.” The earth was what gave them all their powers—even the humans. It was the earth that had given life to them, despite the fact that they all seemed so eager to forget it and prove their own mastery over the universe.

Brows pinched together, Bryden’s eyes drifted around the garden that he hadn’t dared visit before. Forests were more his style. Forests and mountains and real nature. Not the tended to plots of earth that reeked of man-made. But he was lazy. And being surrounded by people, well that wasn’t going to do him any good in the state he was currently is, so he went to the one place that he’d never seen anyone enter or leave in the short period that he had been a resident in the tower.

So surprised to see someone in garden, and even more surprised that they told him what to do, Bryden found himself sitting, his legs crossing underneath him. Fingers drumming on his legs, he shifted, trying to become more comfortable as the pent up anger shifted into pent up energy. Popping his lips a few times, a huff passed through them. He had never been very good at sitting still. “Well- this is a real hoot. I should do this more often.” His snarked, letting his shoulders roll slightly. “How do you just sit here? This has got to be the most boring thing I’ve ever done.”

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Familiar faces||Lachlan & Bryden

@shadowed-dawn

Things had been going well in Bryden’s life since he had taken up residence inside the walls of the tower. The absence of the family he had adopted was still felt with every breath, but in that city, one that held no memories of them, he was beginning to feel like he could be the man he once was.  His control was still shitty, the wolf inside him not liking the sudden change, but he was managing. 

The firehouse had needed him later than his shift, but he didn’t mind. He didn’t have anyone to get home to, not any more. Besides, the wee hours of the morning, before the sun rise but the night didn’t quite have the hold over the world anymore, was his favorite time of day. The world was still sleeping, save for those with an early morning shift. The occasional car passed as he walked, his jacket’s collar flipped up around his neck as his hands were shoved in his pockets. Bryden had become a man of habit in the time he had been here, always taking the same path to and from his place of employment. 

Shoulder bumping into someone that seemed to come out of no where, Bry picked his head up with a quick, “Sorry.” Hands pulled from his pockets to balance himself as he stumbled slightly. He was bone tired from working as long as he had. Really, all he wanted was to crawl into his waiting cot and just sleep for the next several years.