only a fool would wish for the world.

Kaena Lykoi · 08-25-2010, 04:31 AM

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Though the compulsion to comfort existed within her, the silvery hybrid did not reach for Tayui, emotionally or otherwise—her scarred face remained stoic and still. Even so, a softness had entered her remaining eye, a certain understainding of this loss. She herself knew what it was to lose children, and knowing what it was like, she also knew there was nothing she could do the alleviate even one ounce of the mourner's fury and misery in this moment. There was only what the pallid wolf had asked—kill Haku. Was Kaena even capable of such a thing? She had killed so many times before; death was hardly a stranger to the scarred old thing. They had been friends for a long, long time at this point.

But was she truly capable of felling a demon-monster? She had put Salvaged into the ground, but she had been younger then, stronger then—Salvaged had hurt her, for sure, but he had never reached through her ribs, sifting through flesh and tissue and organ to touch her heart, leaving behind charred and blackened stains where he placed his fingers. He had never been that close to her; Haku was another matter entirely. The scarred woman did not think she had ever been frightened of Salvaged, let alone terrified of him. “He will die,” she repeated. “For the pain he's given you, me—who knows who else?” Her voice was heavy with some unidentifiable emotion. She did not doubt for a second there were others—Salvaged had many, and Haku was not so terribly different from the green-eyed demon. If anything, he was worse.

There was an awkward pause, and the old woman shifted her weight from one leg to another, appearing momentarily uncomfortable. “I know you want his blood—is there anything else?” Anything else she could do for the AniWayan—small gestures of comfort were utterly meaningless in the face of so much pain and sorrow, but that did not make the effort itself meaningless, and some mothering part of Kaena demanded this action from her. She did not want this mother to endure her loss alone if it could be helped.

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