brotherly love

Venom spoke and Chimera sighed, rubbing at his face with big paws once more. "I know. I know." Pulling his paws away, he thumped his cheek against the red rock below him. "It's not your fault. It's mine. I lost my kingdom by being weak. I gave into weakness and illness rather than fighting and this is the price that I have to pay." He hadn't been ill since returning, but there was always that 'what if' fear in the back of his mind.

"I just don't know what to do with myself. I've never had so much time on my paws in my entire life." Chimera flexed the very paws that he spoke of, though he barely registered doing so. "I haven't spoken of this to anyone," he informed his sister, though he didn't doubt that Aliana and Siren had figured out his discontent.
"Chimera Klein"