It had been what felt like days since she had seen the Original, since she had seen him. The one person she felt safe around, the one person she felt calm around... ---- the one person who couldn't provide either of that anymore. Safety? She was a hybrid, she could provide her own safety now. Calm? Being a hybrid, there wasn't anything calming about that, not with the waves of emotions that seemed to be hitting her at every available opportunity, emotions that she just didn't have a handle on quite yet. Elijah was the only one who ever made her feel remotely normal in the past, but now? It was true, everything had changed.
"I'll catch up with you in ten," her voice carried across the courtyard, the other four wolves nodding in agreement as they made their way out of the homestead. Her back straightened at the sound of the familiar vampire, her muscles tensing at the thought of turning to see him standing there. And yet, a voice in her head was screaming at her to turn to say something, to say anything.
Turning on her heel, her chin lifted slightly, expression steeling in an attempt to seem... well... unaffected. Her eyes darted upwards, finally stopping and landing on the brother, the one she trusted, the one she... well.... ---- there weren't words. "Haven't seen you in a few days..."