a poison on the street.

[King Chance]

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He did not respond, unable to discern from Harlowe's tone his own thoughts on his father. From what he could tell, it was mostly indifferent, which he found strange. Coming from someone who was so interested in the history of his family, he disregarded his father? King supposed that he was more interested with his mother's family, but still. If one wanted to look at their family trees for information on themselves (which he discouraged), you would have to look at both halves. King wanted to know more from his father and generally emulate him (as strange a consideration that was for such a young kid), but he knew that he was a Chance by blood and name and so he also spent a good amount of time with his mother.


Well, it was certainly a clarification on why Harlowe was here at all, that his mother didn't have the knowledge of their family that this Larkspur did—he was wondering why he didn't ask a parent instead of a distant uncle or something, but he understood now. He was quiet as he considered this; but regardless, Harlowe seemed to accept what he told him about looking to himself for answers. He flicked his tail proudly as the Valley pup responded with his philosophical words—whether or not he actually agreed was beside the point, of course. King barely understood what he had meant; he had intended it to free the other kid up from whatever obsessions he might have on things that were out of his control, but that was pretty much it. Whatever Harlowe decided to take out of it was up to him.


They walked for a while in silence, long enough that King had to remind himself what they were doing anyway. Then he remembered their search for Larkspur and halted, sighing and looking out toward the Dahlian territories. They were nearly through the forest now, and were nearing close to the old town of Berwick. King knew how expansive the territory was, and their chances of actually finding this mythical uncle of Harlowe's. "Larkspur never said anything about where he might be, did he?" Otherwise, they would be doing either a whole lot of searching, or none at all.

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