The following takes place after Tille’s checkup on Wolfbell.
Her ears twitch as annoyance starts to roll around in her stomach like boiling water. She can sense someone else in the void with her. Is it too much to ask to have one sleep where she isn’t being dragged into some void to talk to someone?
She shot up, ears pinned back, limbs shaky.
“Can I PLEASE sleep?” She challenges, just this one time she wants to sleep uninterrupted. No nightmares, no voids. Just. Sleep. PLEASE.
“Wolfbell…” she’s met with a familiar voice, and immediately guilt rushes over her when she realizes who she just snapped at.
“O..Odigos,” she mumbled, wings and tail lowering. “I’m sorry.. I shouldn’t have…”
“Hey, hey it’s okay,” he walked over, the paw he had lifted extended until they could gently clasp each other’s paws. "I .. I get it. It's been a rough last couple of hours trying to get anyone to pay attention to me.”
“Theoús.. I know how that feels,” Wolfbell gave a weak laugh. She looked at him, looked at his face, the scars across it. “Is.. that from…?”
“Got it in battle about a month ago, knocked my regular eyesight out for over a week!” He grimaced. “But.. I could still see like this.” He gestured around to them, the void. “Hey, what do you look like anyways? Or like, what colour is your fur?” He asked.
“Grey,” she answered. “And my skin is this .. dark greyish blue.”
“Huh!” He smiled a bit, coaxing her to sit down. He sat down himself. “Well, my skin is red. And my fur is bright orange.”
Wolfbell giggled a little bit imagining his fur being none other than bright ginger in colour, like a bush on fire. He grinned a bit at the giggle, squeezing her paw a little tighter. Maybe all he could see of her was some white outline, but he could feel her paw in his. The only other member of his kind he knew.
“…. Are.. are you alone, wherever you are?” He asked, and she shook her head a bit.
“No.. no I’m not. I have some friends.” She assured.
“Good.. good, I’m glad.” Odigos exhaled a tiny bit. “Tell me about them?”
She curls up as much as she can with her paw still in his.
“Well.. there’s Dolos. He’s got a really cool mechanical thingy… like, a big person made of metal.” Wolfbell’s tail tucked closer to her body.
“A mech, I think those are called. The rebellion has a couple.” Odigos laid back himself. “Must be very talented to make one of those.”
“Very. And there’s Fal, he’s a robot. It’s a bit weird because I can’t see him super well, but.. he’s nice and his clothing is so pretty. I don’t think he really likes being touched, I wonder if it’s like how I don’t really like it being super loud. Either way, his friend Snow, I just met her recently but.. she’s being so nice to me, when a lot of people usually aren’t.” Her eyelids are getting a bit heavy.
“And then there’s Anti… he’s.. I’m not sure what he is honestly. But what I do know is he’s very kind, and anxious like I am.. and it’s nice to know I’m not alone with that.” She can remember how he tried his hardest to make her feel better when she had that… episode. “And he makes cool rifts to other places.”
He listens, but she can tell he’s getting tired too. Well, really, both of them were so tired to begin with.
“And then there’s Dotty. They’re.. they’re my best friend. I don’t think I would’ve made it this far without them.”
“Sounds like you have some pretty good friends…” Odigos mumbled, his wing having draped over his face. Those orange orbs around him twinkle like little stars.
“Yeah..” she smiled a little bit, Odigos’s blue void fading more to black as her consciousness started to leave her. “I have some pretty good friends.”
