Needed comfort

“Let them in, quickly,” she orders the guard. They bow in response, surprised to see that this was the first time their Luna's eyes had lit up since the weeks she’d been cooped up in the palace. They quickly nod as they head out. Elise couldn’t contain her excitement over seeing her best friend she hadn’t seen in over three years.

Yet she couldn’t help feeling her nerves had begun to eat her, wondering if Vienna hated her for not ever reaching out to her in three years; she wondered if their relationship wouldn’t be the same as it was. She swallows a breath when they are announced.

She bites her lips and layers a hand over her skirt, nervously straightening it like she wasn’t the Luna of a powerful pack but a young, naive child. She thought she could stay strong, but the moment she saw that familiar brunette, tears ran down her cheeks.

Vienna did the same as tears rolled from the healer's eyes: “El!” She muttered with a whimper, her eyes raking over Elise, as she could barely