The boy stared out from his stone den, indigo children danced along the night that lay ahead, he felt a pull towards the darkness that he didn't normally feel. A sense that he should venture outwards propelled him forward on paws that lifted his light body. He shook himself out, all hairs standing on end in the static of the shadows that circled him, shadows that chased him from his current position in the mountain, shadows that screamed at him to run...

So he ran.

Glitch kept his head down as fawn paws pushed him forward, paws that kept him moving to scientists knew where, his tail was low and his ears were flat, but through all this the boy kept a song in his heart. One that would escape his mouth as he kept running from those shadows that seemed to continue to follow. He kept going down, down, down, down to the forests of the mountaintop.


His voice rising and falling with the gentle notes of songs he'd heard from the radios of the scientists. His voice a cresendo of beauty as he closed his eyes and kept going...

Then, he smelled her, the mother of all mothers... Amaranth...

Ears pricked upwards and he skidded to a halt as he lifted a dark button to the night sky to try and scent her out. Once he'd pinpointed her direction he raced through the tree's rather carelessly, pushing through brush and bushes as he tried to find her. Once he had he ran towards the woman, her bright coat of sunlight a breath of fresh air in this terror of darkness...

Ama!!! He shouted as he neared, his paws carrying him to her side and stopping a foot away, his eyes dancing darkly in the night as he waved a blue tail high above his back. He was so happuy to see her, he hadn't seen her in so long it felt like lifetimes... And Glitch knew what lifetimes felt like... They were not long...