05-15-2020, 12:00 AM
[align=center][div style="width: 51%; text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: -1px; font-family: georgia;"]The next few moments would forever remain nothing but a blur in Selby’s memory. Ivan’s injuries, Aurum’s useless blubbering, Simon’s desperate scrabbling.. none of it any use to him. Neither Atticus nor Simon could answer him at present moment it seemed, but his daughter, despite not giving him something direct, provided him with useful clues.
His yellow gaze shifted from Alice to the rubble of their home. Once. Again. Her words barely registered. It hardly mattered. Through her body language, it all slowly clicked together. Numb limbs carried him closer, and he braved a paw against a beam to try and move it. Nothing happened. He was too small to even shift it.
His tail lashed as he looked back to Aurum, who had seen what had happened and forced his children to tell the tale. “Stop fucking crying and help me, you oaf!” he yelled desperately. He couldn’t remember the last time he had raised his voice. Or sworn at somebody. Or called them a name. It didn’t matter. All he knew was that they had to get her out before he shut down completely, because the truth was inevitable at this point.
His yellow gaze shifted from Alice to the rubble of their home. Once. Again. Her words barely registered. It hardly mattered. Through her body language, it all slowly clicked together. Numb limbs carried him closer, and he braved a paw against a beam to try and move it. Nothing happened. He was too small to even shift it.
His tail lashed as he looked back to Aurum, who had seen what had happened and forced his children to tell the tale. “Stop fucking crying and help me, you oaf!” he yelled desperately. He couldn’t remember the last time he had raised his voice. Or sworn at somebody. Or called them a name. It didn’t matter. All he knew was that they had to get her out before he shut down completely, because the truth was inevitable at this point.