Break my heart

It was all so hard. His emotions hurt like hot coals under his coat. It had started with Hanas rejection, and then grown and grow. New blowd hitting him, always so unexpected, and each one worse. Resin getting sick, his mother and Azure dying. Resin dying. He didn't want any of it to be true. Even Hikas kind eyes hurt him. As though some part of Mortis believed deep in his bones that everything was his own fault. Every death, every expression of pain in his family's face. It was why it was so hard to return to them. To stop the days that kept slipping by him. So long, he had been gone from the Armada so long now, falling further and further into the pain in his heart.

He wanted to enter the tourney, but all he could think about was Azures prideful grin, and how his brother would have doninates every match until it led him to the top. Instead, the winged boy found himself in the Hot Springs, the sounds of the late nighter dying away the further he took himself from Ashen. Silence, he was used to that.

Only, it was wasn't silent, not really. He coukd hear a wolf crying. He twitched, half of him wanting to rush to the wolf and see what he coukd do to help. The other half shied away. Tears meant pain, and heartache. Hadn't he had enough of that? Despite himself, his paws led him closer, and he recognised the wolf. His inner demon vanished at the sight of Tamsyn. "Auntie, Auntie? What's wrong!" He said, running to his side and unfurling a wing across her.