He could see the pale woman in a deep slumber. Darius stopped at the edge of the clearing, his breath ruff and deep. Her breathing was almost nonexistent. She looked alive yet dead, dead yet alive. The wolf cub looked up at him and growled menacingly, bearing its long, white, sharp teeth.
"Put me down quickly," Fin said, again making the strange yapping noises. The wolf's eyes opened wide, and he made a strange purring noise, as if to apologise. "You can go check on my mother now" Fin whispered as he ran and started licking and snuffling the little wolf.
As Darius approached the woman, his heart froze. Renn. He used what energy he had left to dart over to sun's mother. He pressed his palm to her chest to feel the tiny beat, like that of an early new-born. Darius put one hand on top of the other and started repeatedly pressing down. Hard. He didn't know why he was doing this, only maybe to beat for her. "Fin, go and find me some water and food, I need some energy before I carry on," he yelled to the boy, still pressing down on Renn's chest.
Fin sprinted of, a new burst of energy taken from beyond himself.
"Come on Renn! Wake up! Don't go yet, your son and daughter need you more than ever!"
As Fin returned with some water and dried deer meat from his mothers pouch, Darius grabbed it and ate the food quickly thanking the guardian and drank the water. After resting for only a fraction, Darius bent over and took her limp body in to his arms. His arms and legs screamed at him under the pressure but he ignored it and ran at full speed in the direction of the shelter. Fin and pine followed just a few steps behind. The little boy's legs were working at such an incredible speed they weren't far off of a blur.
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