Reap Just What You Sow
06-22-2013, 01:49 PM
There was something deeper with this child, something much much deeper than just a simple sense of betrayal. He wasn't sure where it was coming from, or what it really was, but it was much more than Gael had originally anticipated. He had clearly gotten himself in way over his head, but it was too late to back down now. How could he let this boy go without trying to help him? That would be wrong. It would go against his very nature. But it broke him inside, made him feel like a straight failure that the child was rejecting his help. Was he truly so beyond the point of help now? He was just a pup! He shouldn't be locking himself away like that, turning his back to the world. He should be enjoying the world, getting to know it, figuring it out, not pushing it away. Just exactly what had happened to the young child that made him act the way he did? The boy stopped at his words, turning to face him, dual-hued eyes narrowed to dangerous slits as poisoned words slipped from his ebon jaws. Can you crack open my skull? Root your way through my brain to find what's wrong with me? Can you rewind time and prevent my sister from leaving me for some Seracian Prince? Can you make her keep her promises? Can you stop my siblings from teasing me, taunting me, smearing dirt on my coat? You cannot change things that are beyond your power, I cannot change things that are not within my power, do not give me false hope, stop lying to me! Seracian prince...Epiphron? His aunt? The child was distressed because his aunt had abandoned him? But why? Epiphron was completing her duty to her family by marrying the Seracian prince. It was to help form an alliance between Valhalla and Seracia. Did the boy not know that? Audits pinned flat against his skull as the boy continued on, asking if he could stop the taunting of his siblings, screaming at Gael to not give him false hopes. No, I unfortunately can't rewind time and stop all those things from happening, but if it was within my power, know that I would do that in a heart beat. Epiphron didn't leave to you to hurt you, she left because she was helping out Valhalla. She was helping our family form a friendship with Seracia. But just because she's gone off to be married in anther kingdom doesn't mean that she's gone from your life forever. I can guarantee you that you can go visit her there as much as you like. Maybe even live over there with her if you really want to and can convince your parents to let you. I might not be able to erase what's been in the past, but I can help you make a new future. I can become a friend to you, to help guide you, to keep you safe so you won't have to worry about your siblings taunting you any longer. I can help you little brother, but only if you let me. I promise you I do not fill you with false hopes nor lies. I speak only the truth. His voice was calm, a soothing timbre compared to boy's frenzied scream. And then from the shadows emerged a white woman, ebony marks adorning her limbs. She called out to the child, Gabriel was his name. Her scent was similar to his and from her tone he could only assume it was his mother. Gael took a step back, watching Gabriel's mother warily, wondering what she would think upon seeing her son talking to a stranger. Gabriel called out to her, acknowledging her presence. Hopefully she wouldn't turn on him. He would not fight her if it got to that. He had simply been trying to help her son, nothing more. Talk like this |