Brother, Where Have You Been?

Kane stared at Miach in near disbelief, the darkness of the cave his only saving grace as he remedied the look immediately. He did his best to remain in an appearance of indifference as his brother accused him of not seeing the world. Did he assume he accumulated all these scars here on Lirim's territory? Where no threats ever seemed to be? He closed his eye, feeling a migraine coming on deep within his skull as he couldn't believe the obliviousness of his brother at this moment. Did he really not expect Kane to follow him? He.. did he really not know how close Kane felt to them in their youth? "You think.. I..." he whispered, he couldn't even finish that sentence without getting choked up. He forfeited it completely and tensed his jaws, forcing himself not to speak any more about it.

Perhaps, Miach never felt the same closeness for him... and knowing that made Kane's usually guarded heart more vulnerable than he could tolerate. He wanted to be angry at Miach for being so insensitive to everything Kane had tried to do for him for the past nearly two years.. but.. he didn't have the energy. If anything, this was a harsh lesson to him. The bond between him and his brother had been the closest that Kane had ever experienced in his life, with his mother's being second. If his brother barely even understood just how much Kane would have missed him.. well, that said a lot. Attachments were fucking dumb, and so was this whole dream of having a loving father that Miach was somehow chasing after. Who cared about a man that clearly didn't care about them, and why did he want to go with someone he didn't even know?! He was so frustrated with Miach's wishes.

Yet, it wasn't Kane's place to deter him from them. He would let Miach learn on his own, and he would swallow this pain before Miach ever had a chance to know just how much of an effect on him he was capable of having. He was quiet for a moment, gathering every ounce of mental strength that he could to keep from snapping. He let out a sigh and started to move past Miach, "Yeah, sure. Come on. We better hurry, who knows how long he'll even be around for."