I am a big fan of the sentence "the Soul family was hidden underneath his scars." xD
He breathed, watching the expressions breeze past the white woman's features one after another: disgust, surprise, shame, perhaps even regret. What were the thoughts passing through her mind? He almost dared to ask, utterly curious of her association with his dead half-brother, but resisted a long while despite the biting curiosity. But if he asked, what would she snap back at him in return for questions? Why did he believe his mother should never meet him, perhaps? Where had his father gone, or what come of Ceres? Why had the son of Colibri and Acid, a prince of Clouded Tears, ended up a bitter man coated in scars?
He would not know how to respond to his mother, if they crossed paths somehow. Would she recognize him? Would she hate him for what he had become, or the crimes he committed under the birth name she and his father had selected specially for him? Did she know of a shame he brought to the family name, had she heard of the malicious Maluki or met the spirits he had crossed and destroyed? Jefferson could not face that shame, could not face the woman who had once loved him dearly, with one of his father's eyes removed and the wolf frame she had donated to him ripped to shreds? Would she mourn the loss, the disappearance of the identity for the boy she'd raised? Would she think he work had all gone to naught?
He shook his head suddenly, dismissing the thoughts; they brought him a strange, unique grief, a guiltiness that was impossible to overcome without finding out firsthand, his mother inches away. "Don't tell her you saw me, if you find her again," he said, bowing his head. A moment's rest, then his eye returned to her once more, thinning. He dared. "What is your connection to my brother?"
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