Ghouls circling round and round

Kuroki, ever the rebellious child, ignored his motions and, instead, stuck his head over the pool. Take watched as he made a face before pulling away, nothing seeming to be wrong with him and the boy wondered if it was just him that was reacting to the siren call of the bright purple pool. Still, his older sibling commented on how the world wasn’t right and the Princling snorted. Wasn’t that the truth. They had yet to be alive on the earth for even a full year and even then it was easy for them to tell that this wasn’t normal environmental behavior. Call it instinct, or really just the uncomfortable mumblings of their elders, but it was clear that all was not as it should be. He wondered what had brought it on.

His brother continued, mentioning that their father and Lament had found some tracks that seemed neither normal nor even possibly real. He looked at him with raised brows, clearly showing his surprise but no skepticism. The boy was ready to believe almost anything at that moment, after all, if someone had told him a month ago that they sky would freeze in place and that water would talk to him, he would have called them crazy. Now, weird animal tracks seemed to be the least of the issues. He shook his head in reply, letting him know that he hadn’t, in fact, seen any disappearing tracks.