Same old house, just the family's changed.
He should have been sad, surprised or even depressed to return home to find the tree house empty, but he wasn't. It was just like them to up and leave him again when he was away; although it surprised and hurt him that Alaster had also abandoned him this time. Ayasha and his mother.... he expected them to betray him, to abandon him; they had done so before and he had no doubt they'd do so again, for they clearly only cared about themselves. He meant nothing to them and deep down he had already known this, it was just that he hadn't wanted to believe it, had desperately hoped he was wrong.
Sat underneath the shade of what was once his family home he tapped the chisel lightly with his makeshift mallet, the chisel cutting roughly into the wood. Ever since he'd returned home he'd sat outside cutting away slowly into a large chunk of a tree trunk that was roughly a meter in height, his aim to carve some sort of jaguar into it; for since he had been abandoned he had no one to show his spirit guide off too, it seemed like a good idea to carve Lokni and leave the finished totem somewhere where others could see it, where they'd see and know that he had a might spirit guide, where they will respect his work and admire the black guide.
Laying beside him, his black head rested on large paws, Lokni silently watched his charge working. Not comforting his charge, not saying a word; he simply watched and observed how Ahiga was dealing with the situation; when the kid was ready to talk he'd listen but he wasn't going to demand answers. Inside he felt hollow, unable to think or do anything aside from carve into the wood, unwilling to think of the betrayal of his family and allowing himself to become a numb empty shell.
Image courtesy of Jerolek
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