A cruel smile washed over Gabriel’s dark, scarred muzzle. He had know these things long ago, when wolves had still come to his door. There had been less since the last war. Some part of him truly believed that doing what he had done—the unprovoked skirmishes, the warning skulls, the great fires—had been the cause for this. It was better this way. Gabriel had no love within him for wolves, even though he was one masquerading as something else.
He stiffened at the mention of the woman, but the boy’s name was Rhiannon and not Sadria. Iskata’s body had been left to the ocean. As far as he could tell, it had never been found. This too, pleased him. Some people were meant to fade away. “If someone took land from your home, would you not want it back? That’s why we chased the wolves from Hell’s Coast.” Simple. Everything was so simple with him. A short nod of approval was given. “You’re smarter than your father. It’s better to talk of them, or you forget. Some wars are unavoidable. We could no more ignore them than we could their aftermath.” As he said this, he nodded westward. Across the river the charred remains of the field still lingered. By next spring, new growth would cover them. The land would heal, but they would remember. How could they not?
“Haku Soul, the man who began these wars, was a demon. He and those like him should be ripped from the earth,” Gabriel growled, his belief in this matter unbending. Had he been alive to know his grandmother, they would have been no different. “He killed and raped many simply because he believed it his right. Others followed him, either out of fear or admiration. The wicked always seem to find weak souls to join them,” the prophet-king went on in disdain.
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