Never thought I'd find you here

It was him.  Of course a ghost might say the same thing but Kichi had really known the answer to begin with hadnd’t he?  The voice was his, the expressions were his and if it was just a ghost then it was the cruelest trick yet life would have thrown at him.  The young man let out a slow exhale as he relaxed his posture.

The jaw shut tight quickly and first a scowl then a twisted grin came up at mention of Lurid.  “No idea.  Shortly after we left you she told me wait for her as she had something to do.” Kichi shrugged, “I waited, and a day passed, then a week passed.  I found no sign of her.  So, she’s either dead or left.”  That’s what happens.  Wolves die and wolves leave.  In less than a year of life he’d had the pattern repeated.  At least he’d figured out that basic finally.

The smile faded his eyes glanced off to a patch of snow feeling some of that energy deflating, “So anyway, that was that.  I think dead though.  I hear her lately at times Al,” saying his name seemed to be like a bit of magic opening emotions he wanted sealed up, “Her and my other parents.  They won’t leave me be.  It’s like I’m some damn bone they want to fight over." Kichi was still angry but now it was turned on ghosts and inwardly at himself.  Emotions wanted to leak out and the last he wanted was to feel things. The little puppy he use to be had looked at Al to be a big brother or best friend, the one he had chosen for himself. “I never did learn why we split up, if anything had happened.  She just got angry at me when I asked.”

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