Dancing with Fireflys

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Savu padded into the meadow, just as the blossoms began to open. The full moon shone brightly above his head, making him glow white. His blue eyes reflected the stars as he stepped into the grasses. He turned his fluffy head to glance at Mysti, he wanted to see her face when she saw the meadow. The grasses were there in patches, while a blanket of snow covered the rest. Bright white lillies bloomed, giving off a glow.

[Rykett]

Mysti panted. It'd been a longer run to the Lunar Meadow then she'd expected. Her legs wobbled slightly as she stepped to Savu's side and leaned against him. Her eyes had been down on her feet focusing on taking one step after another. An usually light glowed at the edge of her vision. Mysti looked up and gasped. The meadow was alight with white fire more beautiful than the millions of twinkling stars in the sky. Every flower was a star burning brighter than any star Mysti had seen. Every petal glowing a light that was purer than the sun. The colors were brighter than the rainbow. Every flower had it's own unique hue of glowing color. The lights reflected in the tears that began to well in Mysti's eyes as she beheld the most beautiful landscape she had ever seen. Then she looked to Savu. She pressed her self into him smiling contentedly. Then her tongue licked his ear to show gratitude that he had brought her to such a wondrous place.

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Savu settled himself into a patch of snow, the cold not even biting through his thick fur and adrenaline pumped skin. The fluorescent flowers were joined by glowing yellow bugs swarming from the trees, chirping melodically. His alabaster and ash grey fur glowed in the growing light.

[Rykett]

The fireflies only added to the amazing sight before Mysti. The urge to catch them had yet to be quenched. Mysti began walking silently among the flower. Only the slight rustling of brown grass and the fleeing lightning bugs spoke of her presence as she glided through the meadow. She was at peace. Tranquil as the glowing meadow's insect floated lazily around her. Mysti lifted her nose towards a single glowing star of a bug, straining to touch the little torch. She watched in wonder as it alight on her nose then buzzed away. Mysti turned back to Savu and whisper, "I... I've never seen something so..." Mysti couldn't find the word to describe her wonder and serenity in this new landscape.

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Meanwhile Savu had stood, his ears pricked at the human of the fireflies. He looked to Mysti and finished her breathy sentence. "Beautiful." He looked at her without any doubt, he loved her. He padded up silently and nuzzled her cheek affectionately.

[Rykett]

Mysti closed her eyes and pressed herself against Savu. She lick his cheek gently, tenderly. How could Mysti tell him how much she loved him when Mysti was sure Savu wouldn't want a ragged, weak, little wolf like her? He deserved a beautiful, kind she-wolf that matched him in strength. That was something Mysti kept telling herself to keep her mind from having a hope of a future with Savu. She crushed her own dreams because she was sure that they would never come true. Just for that moment Mysti felt like Savu returned her feeling. She knew that she'd better pull away before she hurt herself and dissolved her friendship with Savu. But Mysti couldn't force herself to retreat. After an intense inward struggle between her common sense and her emotions, Mysti breathed a sigh of happiness and relief as she decided to allow herself just one night to stop holding herself back. Mysti met Savu's eyes joy gleaming in the corners of the orbs as the glowing meadow's light reflected in her sky blue eyes.

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Finally! She met his eyes without a gleam of fear! Savu yipped happily and pranced away like a stag into the meadow. "Join me!" He howled and dodged flowers.

[Rykett]

Mysti giggled slightly as she bounded after Savu. She wove through the meadow gracefully and in pursuit of Savu. Her doubt and fear seemed to melt away with every step. Then she was at his side, smiling as she pranced beside him. Her happiness seemed to radiant brighter than the flowers. She affectionately bumped slightly into Savu as she did she gave his muzzle a lick.

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Savu yipped and his fur lay flat with bliss. Without thinking he nosed her cheek and said, "I love you." He whispered. Everything seed to go silent, the lights seemed to glow brighter. There was nothing else in the world but Savu and Mysti.

[Rykett]

Mysti blinked in shock. Nothing would've prepared her for this. Why would Savu love her? Was it true? Did he really love her? She denied it. Nobody but her family had said that phrase with true conviction. Mysti just couldn't accept that Savu was saying it to her. Her immediate instinct was to put as much distance between her and Savu. She didn't want to hurt him. Every time someone showed love for her something bad happened. Her family had loved her and what happened to them? They were destroyed except for Striken. Plus what if he was faking? But something inside Mysti told her the words were true. She bit her lip slightly. "I... I love you, too," Mysti said barely audible, "but why... why would you love me?"

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For a few painstaking moments Savu thought she would reject him. He remembered his brothers, Kaiho, so shy yet loyal, Atlas, a bully. Yet he still loved each and every one if his brothers.
"Of course I love you." Savu placed his nose under the grey shewolfs chin and lifted her head. He pressed his forehead against hers.
"Who wouldn't? You are living and kind. Not to mention modest. You are very beautiful and you don't know it. What's not to love?" He licked her nose softly and stared into her light starry eyes.

[Rykett]

"Everything!" Mysti burst out. None of the adjetives that Savu was giving her didn't apply. She wasn't the kind and beautiful that Savu was describing. Instead she was weak and how could he think that her messy gray and blue fur was pretty. "I'm a nobody," Mysti said her voice quiet as she looked away from Savu, "You don't want a nobody. Nobody wants a nobody. You deserve a somebody. Some other she-wolf that'll love you more than I ever could"

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Savu let out a hurt whimper. "Then I'll be a nobody with you." He turned to face her again, worry apparent in his sapphire eyes. "If only you could see what I can see. We could run to Eternal Snowfall and rejoin them together! We could be in a pack and work side by side for the greater good!" His voice lowered into a whisper. "Doesn't that sound better than running away from yourself? Come with me, Mysti."

[Rykett]

"But your not a nobody! How could such an magificent wolf like you be a nobody? No pack would want me. No pack ever wanted me. I howled at Eternal Snowfall's border and the alphas didn't respond. Maybe they sensed how weak I am. I've always been the unimportant wolf that can't do anything and that's all I'll ever be. I want to help. I want to work for the greater good but I can't. I'm too insignicant," Mysti's voice faltered, "My life is a pointless battle. I don't even understand why I'm still alive..."

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Savu's eyes glistened with tears. "At Eternal Snowfall I answered. I didn't sense any weakness. I sensed need and I, I sensed you. I'm not magnificent. I was a bully." He said bitterly. "I followed a leader who was meaner than the evilest wolf in this valley. Why? Because I was a coward. Now, here I am seeking for redemption." His voice lowered. " I found redemption. You. You make me who I am. I don't know what is do without you." Savu noticed a puddle of ice melt. "You see that?" He nosed the water making it ripple. Then the surface became glassy once more. "That's what I see, I see that and more."