The Rebel's Wish

Black and White

Lonely, Varyna sat at a table in Aru, watching the sunrise through a window, A month had passed by since Blackmane had been injured by Ria. The great snake had allowed Blackmane to return to Falin to be healed, but at Varyna's enslavement to Ria.
Her only possession she was able to keep was the feather on the chain around her neck.
She snarled as she the familiar sliding that meant Ria now woke. She hurriedly got a bucket full of water from the pond for her mistress.
Upon being a killer, Ria was a tyrant.
Ria lashed out her tail to knock the bucket over. "Not fast enough." Ria's forked tongue flickered over Varyna's lowered head. "Hurry it up."
Varyna quickly filled up the bucket and Ria drank it. "I'm giving you the day off." Varyna's limitless hope reached a limit as Ria added, "But you are not to leave this building. Remember what happens to those who disobey me."
Varyna quickly went downstairs and mingled with the commons, having a long waited pleasure. She stopped at the door.
'Where I led Blackmane into danger', she thought sadly. 'My hero. My lost hero.'
She turned away and sat , slumped, in a corner. "I hope he remembers me." She said aloud.
Another wolf, whose pelt was as black as hers was white, wobbled over to her. "Oo us e?"
"He was a close friend of mine." She said, a tear falling from her eye.
The other wolf straightened visibly. "I'm Koray." He said. "I know you."
Varyna tilted her head.
"Did you know Zuna?"
Varyna nodded. Zuna was her birth mother who had died. Sanai had simply taken Varyna in to gain favor with the people.
"She was my mother, too." Varyna's eyes widened and she looked at Koray.
Koray looked away shyly.
Varyna leapt at him, pinning him, and licked his face. Her necklace dangled down onto his chest. "I tried looking for you." She said.
And she had. Even before Varyna had been adopted by the king, she was raised as a thief and fought for each day. Her brother, Koray, helped her survive.
And together they left, black and white finding another at last.