I CAN NOW POST THIS Scene from @redux-iterum, the well-deserved Fireboy Catharsis was real and I had to illustrate it
"He couldn’t even open his mouth to answer. Something near delirium was spinning his head around. Nothing seemed real save his mother’s voice.
“You can get it out here.” Goldenflower rested a huge paw between her son’s shoulders, adding softly, “Please talk to me, honeymouse.”
It was so hard to understand his surroundings now. Everything blurred and spiraled, and for a moment a small white shape stood in front of him, silent and rigid and leaking red. The weight of Goldenflower’s paw and the scent of motherhood were the only things connecting him to reality.
Deep in Firestar’s core, walled in by towers of guilt and anger and regret… something cracked. It started small, but rapidly widened into a fissure, racing through his body in a spiderweb pattern. His eyes began to burn, and his body began to shake.
Self-control broken in half, he leaned hard into his mother, buried his face in her fur, and croaked in a tiny voice, “I didn’t mean to kill him.”
Goldenflower’s soothing purr rumbled through his body, and she moved her paw lower onto his side to pull him closer to her, until he was almost completely swallowed by her long fur. Like a newborn kit, he pressed into her as hard as he could, no longer having the strength to keep himself upright."
