Title: (this garden once called home)
Fandom: Earth's Children
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 150
Summary: The Others child has grown up, and died, and become other.
 

Even the wind, a constant presence for so many days that it is ignored as much as heard, falters as figure appears at the cave’s entrance. It is not yet the depths of true winter, when snow and ice blankets the trees and land, but it would take only the arrival of a storm for it to be so; no one living would seek to travel at such a time of year.

And that is what arrives, in the end.

The clan, always quiet, grow quieter still.

Who could not feel the cold clutch of fear, when confronted with a woman twice dead? Even malicious spirits, once driven away, do not return to torment those who live still under Ursus's protection.

The air, heavy and still, quivers with the rasp of breathing. The heat of wood falling away from wood. Durc, shouting, free as any cub in its lair,

"Mama!"