A Miracle Come Alive

A Miracle Come Alive
Countless nights under a cloudless sky, counting the stars I would never finish counting and hoping for a dream that would never come true, wasted.

She wouldn't come back to me, I couldn't apologize. I knew it was the final evening we spent together, arguing over the mange-ridden intruder's prescence, when she disappeared along with him. But I never found out if she'd be forced to depart by force. . . or if she'd gone with him, willingly.

I'm haunted by the ghost of our last shared words.

My Clanmates were sympathetic - they knew my sister and I were as close as littermates could be. I let them be. They knew nothing of my pain. . .of losing my only friend, and yet my bitterest enemy. Silvershade's ice-blue eyes stalk me through my dreams, whispering, "Why, Emberfire? Why?", flooding me with the same guilt and resentment running through my blood during my painful hours of daylight.