wildward!au (the wolf)

[ Wildward!AU | Elsa & Jack | based on the Wildward series by @callimara ]

IN THE TIME OF THE FIRST KEEPER…

She knew—even without Hugenn to guide her, without the Vision brought to her by the black opal, without her Aegis and the Sentinel of Thought—that they could never be. She need not look into her future. She need not slow down time, no matter how she might wish to.One day, somehow—this power would be lost.

Until that day came—when their Aegis abandoned them, or all was forgotten—and perhaps even after, he would remain... But she would not yield, and he did not push, for Villr, the Sentinel of Protection, had chosen a Guardian: he, with his survival and his Rage, with the speed and strength bestowed upon him by the brown onyx of the earth, would protect her from harm, would provide shelter and safety for her cold frozen heart.

“I do not protect you because the Wolf wills it.
The Wolf answers my will because I protect you.”

She believed him, but it changed nothing. One day, their borrowed godhood would be gone, and their fragile mortality would find them. “Perhaps,” she said, knowing the truth and—for the moment—choosing not to. “Perhaps what we have will share the agelessness of the Aegis. Perhaps, one day, we will find each other again… maybe centuries. Eons. In a thousand years.”

He, who fought not with his Mind but with his Heart, felt the cautious Raven place her delicate trust in the Wolf. Smiling with naught but his eyes, the Guardian echoed the vow that would last—maybe centuries, maybe eons.

“Then I’ll find you. In a thousand years.”

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