No, the boy’s never really been a child. Never protected and shielded, never got to have responsibilities and freedoms escalate gently as his ability to take them on improved.
It will break Lashan’s heart if she thinks too long about how Vena and Guts and so many of the others passing through the enclave and out in the world haven’t had that. They just go from less power to more, at best. Guts is better off than a lot of the others, as terrible as that thought is, because he can be on his own and that's better for him than being used by evil guardians. Better not to think of it, Lashan knows. She peers out into the rain, silvered by her lantern. A bit of the ozone scent is still detectable under the coppery reek of all this blood, and something acrid and burnt.
“They got hit by lightning. It’s attracted to metal and they were on a rise,” she says shortly. Which is all completely true. There are still flickers of lightning and murmurs of thunder still going, all further away. “All the more reason to get gone. Even you can’t fight a storm, my buck.”
Galli has determined that taking the head would be too difficult so she’s pried the jaws open and cut into the gums, then started hammering with the hilt of the knife to loosen teeth, her head down. Thud! Thud! Crack!
Lashan lets out a breath and holds out her sword. Her joins are burning in a slow mutiny. "You're in better shape than me. If you wanna cut off a forepaw..."
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It will break Lashan’s heart if she thinks too long about how Vena and Guts and so many of the others passing through the enclave and out in the world haven’t had that. They just go from less power to more, at best. Guts is better off than a lot of the others, as terrible as that thought is, because he can be on his own and that's better for him than being used by evil guardians. Better not to think of it, Lashan knows. She peers out into the rain, silvered by her lantern. A bit of the ozone scent is still detectable under the coppery reek of all this blood, and something acrid and burnt.
“They got hit by lightning. It’s attracted to metal and they were on a rise,” she says shortly. Which is all completely true. There are still flickers of lightning and murmurs of thunder still going, all further away. “All the more reason to get gone. Even you can’t fight a storm, my buck.”
Galli has determined that taking the head would be too difficult so she’s pried the jaws open and cut into the gums, then started hammering with the hilt of the knife to loosen teeth, her head down. Thud! Thud! Crack!
Lashan lets out a breath and holds out her sword. Her joins are burning in a slow mutiny. "You're in better shape than me. If you wanna cut off a forepaw..."