Building piece by piece

Izaak · 12-03-2010, 06:31 PM

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OOC: Image © Jacoby, Coding © Sie; Already talked to you about ending this so I will let you decide what to do, whether you want to add a reply or just archive; 576 words

The boy was uneducated. His mother was too busy worrying about her own desires to bother trying to teach him anything. The only visitors that came were those that were there to give his mother their attention. He was either kept inside of the one roomed shack where they lived in Germany and wasn't allowed out to explore. Or the times that he was sent out, or just ran to get away from his mother's temper, he wasn't allowed to wander too far away from the place where they stayed. He had to always remain within eyesight of the shack so he didn't have much in the way of worldly experience. He didn't know anything about scent markers. Sure, he could smell and all but he didn't know how to decipher the scent of someone having just passed through an area as opposed to someone living within an area. Actually he only knew Inferni's borders because they were clearly marked with the stakes and skulls.

He didn't exactly get the whole seasons lesson. He didn't know how to determine the difference in seasons. "It wah hots an nows it colds." That was about as much knowledge as he had on seasons. Just the differences in temperatures were all that he knew. He didn't realize that these had any relations to actual seasons though. All he knew was that it had been warmer than it was now when he had found Blizten. Just as he had no idea that Blitzen had gotten separated from a migratory herd. There were so many basics that everyone took for granted that he had no idea about.

And it being Izaak didn't make it any easier. He lacked the basics of knowledge so he had to be taught all of that before being explained the answer to his questions. It was only the kindness, or perhaps pity, of others that he had survived this long. His mother certainly had never cared, not unless he was servicing her appropriately. That was the only time that she cared that he was around. Other than that he went ignored and had learned to entertain himself.

His hands raised up to rub fists against his eyes in order to clear away the tears. The more that he ended up clearing away then the more that slipped down onto his cheeks. Once he grew upset it was hard to bring him out of that downward spiral. But it wasn't like he grew too upset too often either. "I sorries..." Again he was apologizing as he sniffled. His eyes had become trained upon the ground. Not even the offer to allow him to help could change his mood. The only thing he knew was that he was a bad boy and he was hated. Or that was how his mind processed it. "I sorries... I go ways." He sounded utterly heartbroken as he spoke, like his whole world was ending.

He turned and reached over for the reindeer to give him a gentle pat on the side of the neck. "Komm Blitzen, müssen wir gehen." He spoke to the reindeer as he led the way back in the direction that they had come from. Not only could he not find the berries for Blitzen he had learned that they weren't allowed through the area where the caribou had originally migrated through, not allowed in the area where it had gotten lost from the rest of its herd.

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