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With the rising sun in the sky, Niesha was slowly waken from her slumber by the rays. She blinked her eyes a few times to get the sleep out of her eyes. As she rose from the ground, she looked around to see where her family members are...since they never strayed far from her.

With her brothers sleeping, she looked at them and couldn't help by compare their sleeping faces to their active faces. Much different!

Then she looked around for her mom as she stood up.

Nix'Annada was not far from her childnre, she enjoyed waking up earlier than them, watching their faces and chests rise and fall with soft breath as they slept. They were so peaceful when sleeping, and could be such a racket when awake, but she loved them always. Nix sat on a slate rock not far away, some sand mixed in with the dirt here, they were close to some desert, though they ekpt to the far edge. Nix wasn't sure how close they might be to a pride, and didn't go far from her children, she wasn't sure if this was almost firekin territory.

Rage was off hunting with Dae, they seemed to never be able to be far apart, it was strange, seeing Daemonascus frozen compared to his past life self, his mane was not full, his legs long but not completely muscular. But, he had said to her, he did it for Rage, to make things easier, to set this time apart from last. Nix's ears flicked as she looked towards the small forms, one moving, not wriggling as if in a dream. "Niesha?" she almost always knew, her young daughter was a light in her life, and NIx knew she would always feel so close to her silver coated daughter. "Whya re you awake so early, hmm? Did you sleep well?" NIx pat the stone next to ehr and smiled softly, "I have a gift for you today," Nix loved to make her daughterthings from found and created objects, this one was special, cast in teh sand.

Her ears flicked as she heard her mother's voice. With caution, she stepped around her siblings so that she wouldn't step on them and wake them.

When she came over to where her mother was sitting, she looked up at her with wide and adorning eyes before nodding to her mother's question. "I slept well but couldn't sleep anymore."

She leaned against her mother and purred softly. Softly, she inhaled her mother's scent and kept it all for herself. Her mother was so warm and caring, she loved her mother very much! And with a soft blush spread across her face as she shyly asked, "A gift for me?"

"Oh, well I'm glad you slept well little one," Nix let one of her wings drape over Niesha's small form, one day, her size could compare to her own. Nix longed for the day to see her daughter all grown, but then again, would Niesha travel far in her future journey's, would she go, and never visit again? Nix felt like she could never truly let go of Niesha, there was something more, something special, something that Nix didn't want to ahve taken away.

She smiled and nudged Niesha's small form, "Of course, would I just try to lure you next to me with falsity or just words?" Nix winked and held out her other wing wrapping around herself, clasped in the edge of it she unfolded her wing, a small gleaming piece of the glass stone NIx could make when lightning struck sand was tied to a feather from Nix's wings. "For you, Niesha, I still need to find a part for your neck, or ear if you'd rather, I thought you might like it." NIx felt like she could always dote on her daughter.

She set it before Niesha and looked to teh sky, taking a breath and hugged her daughter tight, looked down, wondering how Niesha would understand. "Niesha, I'm glad you've woken early, there is, something, I want to talk to you about."

When her mom put her wing around her, she continued to purr softly at the comfort. She loved her mom's big wings! Especially when they were hugging her!

She watched her mom curiously before her eyes widen in surprise. It was just so pretty! And it would definitely keep her mom close to her.

She was so happy that she snugged her face into her mother's side and nuzzled happily. "It's so pretty Mom!" Where she would put it, she wasn't sure yet, but she was certain that it didn't matter since it would always be special to her.

And then, her ears perked forward as she watched her mother. "Is there something wrong?" Her ears lowered slightly as she questioned, unsure of what her mother wanted to talk about.

"Yes, we are always together, and will always be together, we are family lil love," NIx held her daughter close again, and released, Nix felt like she might squish her one day if she never let go. "And no, there's nothign wrong with either of them, but, I want to tell you something, it may be hard for you to understand, and I don't want you upset, confused or angry, I just want you to understand, and not be confused in the future," Nix took a pause, lokoed to the open sky, the open ground before her, where to start?

"Your brother, Niesha, existed once before, in a time years and years ago, as a god, or goddess, if you...pass on, you go through what is called a cycle, a cycle is when you are born again, for we never truly die," was this too much, for her small daughter, would she scare her? "Your brother, in his past life, was a good friend to me, and moreso to your Aunt, your aunt and I, Niesha, aren't related by blood like normal sisters, we are related, we call it, by a binding of friendship and love for one another like sisters have, do you understand that?" she would wait, she wanted to make sure Neisha wasn't confused. (end)

When her mom started talking, she listened quietly. She talked about her brother, her aunt and herself. With all of this information, she tried to piece it together in her mind. So her brother lived once before...had she?

Her eyes glanced up at her mom as she tried to understand it all. It was all so confusing and complex! "So Auntie and you...don't have the same mom like my brothers and me?"

"No, we never did. You see Niesha, your Aunt and I, we met when we were very little, I was still with my family, younger than you are now, and she and I met when I had wandered away to chase a butterfly. Her family was gone, and she was alone, she was accepted into my family, and since that day, we call ourselves sister, even if not related by blood from our parents." Nix was glad Niesha was able to understand, it would make this easier.

"But, when your brother existed in his past life, there was trouble," she didn't say what, she didn't want Niesha to be afraid, "and he got caught in it, before he was caught within the trouble, he had passed on, anc cycled into who he is now. I met him briefly in his past life, and yes, now he is my own son, but he and Rage had a closer bond in the past, which, from an outside perspective, looks strange. Aunty Rage IS your aunt, but not by blood, and Dae is your brother, by blood, and they, well," how to explain it?

"You know, when a mommy, and a daddy are happy together? That is what they are to eachother, but without children of course, or we would notice something like that," she laughed. It might be hard, for Niesha to understand, not having her own father around, but, Nix hoped she had not confused her little light. (end)

There was so much to take in and she tried to understand it as best as she could. From what she understood was that her Aunt was an aunt by blood and her brother was somehow even older than she thought!

She looked at her paws as she wasn't sure she understood everything completely. And then she looked back at her mom and asked, "Like love? Like you and me?" She scrunched her face, trying to understand, "Is that what Brother and Aunty are?"

"Yes, they have what we have, love, but there's is a little bit different. Our love, is something so close, something we share, you are my daughter, born from lightning, and I am a part of you, in here," she touched Niesha's chest gently, adn smiled. "I will always be a aprt of you, and be with you, even when we aren't right next to eachother like this. What Aunty Rage and your brother have, is a love that transcends the blood relation, and is a love of caring towards one another. But, this doesn't meant hey have a stronger bond than us," she winked.

"I just, didn't want you to be confused someday, if they ever had little cubs, which I'd give you permission to babysit, and play with of course," she smirked. "I didn't want you to question things, before I could explain them to you. Truthfully, your brother wished to tell you, but, he was afraid you might be afraid of him! Thinking he was an oldy like your mom." (end)

So her Aunty and Brother loved each other? But she never thought it was strange, and would never say so...it was not in her nature afterall!

The thought of cubs made her eyes widen. Her brother, with cubs? Would...that make her an Aunty! Oh, that was an exciting idea.

And then her ears lowered as she looked to the ground. Her face was all tinted red as she spoke softly, "I wouldn't be afraid of Brother. I love him too..." Her voice trailed off softly before she asked her mom, "What about you? Why don't you have Love too? Will I not find Love?"

Nix brought a paw around Niesha and pulled her close to sit in front of her forelegs. She curled her wings around her and purred, closing her eyes. "I do have love, the love for my family. Someday, I will find the one that completes me, like your Aunty Rage and your brother share together, and one day, you will to. I'm just a late bloomer," Nix smiled and licked her daughter's head. One day, Nix would sit and speak with Niesha about her father, Niesha had a right to know about him, but this was enough for one day, there were more days tomorrow and the next. "You will find a love that makes you feel like wings spread from your back my little Niesha, and one day, we will both find it, and fly together feeling it in our hearts."

She again licked Niesha's head and purred, standing and stretched her legs, "Come, why not wake your brothers up hmm?" she smirked, cuorched down and wriggled herself, as if to pounce, "I give you permission to get them this morning, by surprise, what do you think hmm?" Nix could not wait for the future, to see how Niesha would grow and find someone in love like Rage found in Dae, hopefully, Nix would find it someday as well. She was in no hurry though, her family, she loved without question, and nothing could change that. (end)

Wake up her brothers? Oh, it sounded fun! She didn't always get the chance to harass her siblings, though it wasn't in her nature to be too mean or violent.

She stood and followed her mom back to her sleeping brothers, ready for the start of a new day.

~ Fin!