Voices In My Head Again

The male introduced himself and told exactly how he was related to Nova. This boy wasn't ashamed of his namesake like her though and Dae eyed him, guessing as to why. Her mother had not been in the picture and the only male scent she carried before aside from littermates was this males. No father. The way the man was as guarded told him something. Half brother meant one thing, either her mother had been raped to make nova, or her mother was a whore who wasn't careful with her seasons. Neither were pleasant in Dae's mind. While yes he would rape someone, he did not like the thought of doing so just because he could. His reasons would be because one of his women would not conceive or had gone back on their word after he made them a deal.

Nova however was excluded from such a category. She sought his knowledge and a family she could trust.

"Feel as you like about it, but I will still teach her. I come from a far land where gender does not matter as much until your a year. You learn everything together, then after a year the ladies are taken to be taught how to be mothers, healers and to become what rules even the kings. Men in my culture are warriors, hunters, and kings. We live to die in battle. What I cannot teach her, luckily my sister who arrived recently can. She will receive an education in our culture, have a family with me when she feels she is ready, and have unrelated family in my brother and any who come to our kingdom. Would you truly not want that for her? Or have you not asked her how she feels?" he waited a moment. If their mother had ran out then this boy raised her, he didn't get the chance to learn to be her brother so much as he was her father. "So long as she is happy, as her brother you should be happy for her. I know if my sister found someone to make her happy, I would forgo traditions to see her as such." it was more than advice. It was a brother-in-law giving a brother-in-law a small opportunity to see something else.

"I took her to hunt deer in the snow a few days ago, her smile and the way she looked told me one thing Chasm, in doing this, I'm making a woman who doesn't feel like she belongs anywhere, feel like she finally has a place in the world. But if you still seek to take her from me because of something I did not commit, then I will have to challenge you. It is tradition that should the brother or father not forgo it, the man that wishes for the lady's paw in marriage, challenge for such. Should he fail to win the male is to leave her be and never look to her again, no matter how much it hurts either of them." he was clear with his traditions. While he did not want this man hurt, he would die for Nova. He had already made his vow to her. He also knew that to take her from him in such a way may wind up hurting her and making her hate chasm in the long run. Was the boy willing to risk such a thing? To fight over her happiness? He wasn't certain.

He kept at a steady pace as he spoke the entire time, making certain that chasm could keep up. Besides Nova had made it clear by not running from him that she was sticking around and potentially even loved her Spartan. What kind of king would he be if he could not at least keep her safe and happily by his side?