ain't doing it for a round of applause

Akuma would say he did hurt. Imp frowned, stopping what he was doing to see the boy rub at his head. "Maybe you got horns growing in?" the boy didn't know how close to the truth he had gotten until it was much later "lots of wolves got those, I heard!" How cool would that be? "mine's probably a toothache." He shrugged, not caring but also caring a lot. Widow said being different was bad, so he didn't want to be different. He liked looking like Recluse. He didn't want to be different than her! Ma was special, Da was special. Akuma and Nirah were special too.

At the mention of climbing up to the volcano, the boy scowled. "We doing all the work!" Imp proclaimed, kicking another stray bone to the entrance "whoever comes back first has to move this stuff" He didn't want to be roped into doing everything! Where were the adults? He was starting to get worried - Recluse wouldn't leave them for long. She practically sat on her children, protective as hell. "we'll just make it super obvious they gotta." Imp decided it was too much work to climb the mountain.

If Akuma wanted to, he could. Imp was not breaking his back over trash. He flung another bone pile to the entrance, puffing with pride. "There, we did it!" And that was good enough, right?

"he speaks"
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