Reminiscing

“I’m thinking of my family, the one i’m looking at!” he said, voice rising a little now. “Hazel and Spider will be fine. As for Heir… do you really think I want to lead that pack without you? I was supposed to learn from you, to lead with you. That was the version of the Armada I believed in.” Basilisk explained, his voice sounding, if anything… tired. His world was thrown upside down. He had lost his father, he had found him. He had his childhood illusions shattered.

You couldn’t just pick up the pieces of the past, shake them off, and pretend nothing would ever change. Life was about change. If he had been asked merely an hour before, he would have laughed at anyone that suggested he leave Spider and Hazel, walk away from Heir. But he was seeing glimmers of his father in Azure. That man he had followed, that he had done everything to make proud of him. The idea of walking away from Azure now… it felt like it would wrench him in two. He wanted to find a way to keep everything. Spider, Hazel, and Azure. But he knew Hazel wouldn’t leave the Armada. Would Spider? Would Hazel forgive him if he both left, and took Spider with him? He couldn’t have everything, but his ties to Azure felt more fragile. He felt he would lose more if he didn’t seize this chance. “If leaving the Armada is truly your choice, then mine is to follow you. You are my Alpha, Azure.”


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