Hidden Secrets

A/N: I do not own any characters, places, blah blah blah...



For the first time, here, I admit it. From the day I first saw them together, I was jealous. Though the Captain, Cloud wolf, had saved my life more than once, and Maris was the closest thing I had to a friend. Never was I more jealous than the day Maris died. At first, I felt nothing, then guilt at my lack of sadness. There I sat, with the Captain, when Spiker came in, with tears down his little face.
"C-captain, I... I don't know how to say this...but- she's gone. She left you with a son, though. What would you name him?" The Captain's sorrow erupted into fury. "Name him? By Gloamglozer, are you out of your mind? You know as well as I that we can't keep him. Leave him somewhere at the next landing." "Good," I thought to myself, "He can't possibly survive, all alone in the perilous Deepwoods like this. He, and with him Maris, are gone from our lives. The Captain and I both will forget about Her as much as I we can.
But of course, I was wrong. 15 years passed, and in all those years, the Captain never noticed my devotion, or if he noticed, he passed it off as the devotion of a sailor to her captain. Then, Twig came into the picture.