His feet followed the worn dirt path that had been carved over years of use. He did not need to think where each paw fell, for it was repetition. Gabriel frowned at the idea. Every day he did the same patrols, saw the same things, marked the same areas. He was bored. He was bored and he hated that he was bored. Peace should not have come so easily. That, in truth, was what he found so terrible. There had not been enough blood to remind them why war was such a horrible thing.
I want blood. Tayui’s voice echoed in his head. He had tried to sway her otherwise, tried to explain the world as he saw it, and still there was only blood on her mind. Perhaps he should not have been surprised. She was, after all, a wolf. All wolves were alike. The thought made his muzzle crinkle with distaste. His father had been no different either, as made apparent when the disease turned him mad and loosened his tongue. Like all the wolves before him, Gabriel too was similar. He was a halfbreed who pretended to be neither of his kin. This was a lie. He could not cut himself apart like that.
Yet there was no room within him for two halves to exist. He had thought with Haku’s death the great duel would have ended, yet now he dreamt of blue eyes and laughter and knew it was not so. Now he was faced with another great battle, but one he had been fighting since birth, one he was incapable of winning. Gabriel felt the anger rise in his chest and welcomed it.
So when he found the stranger sniffing at the borders of Inferni, there was no time for coherent thoughts. The Aquila’s voice was lost in a loud snarl, the first and only warning he intended to give. His fur rose along the spine as his muscles tensed and tightened. Not yet. The bastard had to fight or flee. I don’t want to be like you. No, she didn’t. Gabriel wanted blood as well—and he took it indiscriminately and with equal hatred for the part of him that he despised.
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