That was it! All that mattered was saving the precious life that grew at her core from those that wished to snuff it out.
Her child hadn't even been given the chance to take their first breath… How could they do such a thing?
"Please wait for me! I can't run that fast! It hurts!"
Only one voice managed to cut through to her. A little voice that braved the thousand, deafening ones screeching bloody murder across her brain.
So familiar, yet so foreign at the same time. So close yet so far from her ears at once… Coming from everywhere and nowhere around her.
"Please, don't leave me here!"
It yelped again, pleading for her mercy.
To whom did that voice once belong? To someone dear?
Yes! Otherwise, why would it hurt so much to try and ignore it.
"R…Remus? Is that you?"
Arabella had stopped dead in her tracks, eyes flickering around, tearing through the pitch-black coat of the night.
