vow (n.)
"solemn promise," c. 1300, from Anglo-French and Old French voe (Modern French vœu), from Latin votum "a promise to a god, solemn pledge, dedication; that which is promised; a wish, desire, longing, prayer."
🌓 "We'll have a nest ready for you," her mother was told. But when she returned, exhausted from scouting faraway lands, there was none to be found. They forgot. So Vœu and her sister became the only survivors of what should have been a litter of four. Their mother threw in her resignation immediately, pupsitting only her own, vowing to leave the moment they were weaned, with an open invitation for her daughters to follow and find her. When they turned twelve moons old, her sister's howls joined their mother's in the night sky from beyond the surrounding hills. But Vœu stayed.
[they/she (but only if you're close)]
