Skylar watched the sun as it rose, her tail swishing, her ears straining to listen for anything out of place. But the only thing she heard was the early morning song of the birds, the critters chittering, and she could hear the whispers of the wind. It was a peaceful. How often had she seen such a peaceful scene with someone that was not of animal spirit?
Looking down at the boy who had trusted her with his life, her clawed hands danced along the strands of his hair. She would not touch his skin. Her claws, the sharp and pristine white bone that had saved so many….were poisoned with the blood of the ones she failed to save. She would never touch something as pure as him with something as dirty as herself.
The morning sun rose more, creating warm rays, and a lone hawk screeched as it flew overhead. Skylar knew this man would be hungry and she sniffed the air, smelling a rabbit in the brush. Then, the smell of a wild boar met her nose and her mouth watered. It had been so long since she had any kind of prk. She lived off of foxes, rabbits, birds, anything that crossed her path. But she would pursue the boar when this man was sleeping. He needed someone there for him, Skylar could smell it in his tears. She could see it in the way he had trembled. But Skylar was confused.
Why didn’t she kill this man to lift the burden he had created for her? Was she regaining that bit of humanity that was left in her bones when she was taken over by her miraculous?
The friendship that had developed between Skylar and I on that fateful day was something that I could never truly part with. She was the only living creature that could sincerely understand my pain and I hers. It was as if the moon and sun had collided on that day, our hearts as one--friendship was the only word I had to describe it but it was most definitely something more. There was this unspoken understanding between us that made things so much easier… both of us knowing that the other wasn’t human… we were both running from demons, some more metaphoric than others. In truth I never really thought I would meet someone like her, I had expected my entire life to be a void… a hole that would never fill, but I’d been wrong about that in so many ways.
It was on this warm Saturday morning though that things took a strange turn for the best. The comfort of my bed was accompanied by thoughts of the wonderful woman that had came into my life. I still wasn’t entirely sure where she took off too during the day… but knowing she’d come back to me was enough to give me something to look forward too each day. It was when I was reading a magazine well pretending too that I felt something. It was like this tug on my heart… a feeling of intense emotion, but there was also something physical… a leashed feeling… like I was invisibly tethered to something from beyond. Immediately I assumed it was something evil… maybe the dark creatures of the night had found me in the safety of my new home? But it only took moments when something faded into my vision. A ghostly chain embedded in my chest.
I bit my lip to see if I was just daydreaming… maybe I’d fallen asleep. There was no such luck… only a tingle of pain in my lip. I wasn’t dreaming. Quickly I shifted in my covers, sitting up with a jolt and pressing my hand to my chest, only to have it pass right through the spectral chain.
“Wha…” I found myself muttering from the shock. There was another tug on the chain and then I knew it wasn’t fake… this was a real thing sticking out of my chest. I reached up and touched the chain again… this time I could feel it there. I wondered if maybe before I couldn’t touch it because I didn’t believe it was there. It was only speculation though… I had no idea what this thing was… and was frankly beginning to panic.
With my hand I lightly tugged back at the chain, watching as the chain materialized further up, revealing that it was coming from the ceiling… the chain was literally passing through the ceiling. Was this another part of the Curse from the Mountain God… I could only assume that it was something to do with my Curse.
(SORRY FOR DELAY. Also I time skipped about a month into their friendship, just to get us going into some things. I stopped the post at a weird spot so you can have Skylar feel the tug and stuff and react. This is the first time they notice their Tether. :DDDDD Let me know if you need anything to be changed in my post.)
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