When Ekrina arrived in the living area everyone had fallen asleep in, Shadow was no longer on the couch. In fact, she was in the kitchen. Standing, and staring. Just...staring. It was as though she were asleep on her feet, only her eyes were wide open, unmoving, unblinking. There were green stains on her cheeks from where her eyes had bled out their color, the clothing Li had given her only slightly baggy on her new slender form. Despite all the turmoil, her long, shiny black hair was only slightly dishevled.
She had been completely out since yesterday afternoon. That much she knew. What had happened between her break and now, she couldn't say. There was a complete blank in her memory. She didn't even remember waking up. She was just suddenly here, in the kitchen, staring out the window blankly. She could smell the remnants of last night's missed diner, and her stomach growled in protest, but she completely ignored it.
She couldn't seem to decifer how she felt. She was just...cold. Empty. The break had swept away all emotions and left her barren.
They had never moved her from the couch where she had fallen. She supposed they all assumed she would be alright. And she was. Or, she hoped she was. If anything, she was a bit sore, but that was natural for a break. And there was one emotion. One strong, undying feeling, a need.
She wanted comfort. The comfort of pack. At best, her half-brother Blade. She wanted Blade, or someone else close, to be there near her. But she didn't have anyone else, did she?
No...
Shadow was the lone wolf. Even Blade could only get so close. She had decided long ago that it simply was not worth it to love somebody. Those pathetic hopes had been crushed.
But they had not truly been obliterated. She was still too much like her mother, Silence, to give up on that which she needed by nature. Perhaps that was why her father still hated her, still wished her dead. Because she reminded him of her mother, of the mate he had slaughtered...
Shadow blinked suddenly, glancing over her shoulder at Ekrina's small form. Her eyes were still eerily empty.
"I am sorry for nearly ripping your home apart. It...It wasn't something I could control." She sighed through her nose and closed haunted eyes. "I'm sorry."