Hopefully it's okay he knows?
I wasn't sure how quickly news would spread...
Just wanted to reply to this so it wasn't lonely anymore. <33
There seemed to be a curse on the youth of Cercatori d’Arte—no, he refused to think of curses. He reasoned that nature had simply chosen a time and place to hand out all its nasty tricks, all the underhanded ways it stole life from those who’d barely begun to breathe, and the merchant pack was simply a breeding grounds for those tricks. With all the litters born recently—or almost born—it didn’t surprise him that disaster would rear its ugly head…but it worried him. He was, at the heart, superstitious, and as a father he could not help but draw a parallel between everything that had happened and his own two precious children, their eyes open and their spirits restless. They were so alive, nothing should be able to touch them.
Levent told himself that, standing outside his home and rubbing the bandages on his shoulder. He spared a glance at the hut on the other side of the street, wondering if the children were sleeping or giving their mother a hard time. He half wanted to go and see, but there were many others in the pack he could spend his time with, too. He realized that he cared about them, even if he didn’t know them well—Keldava, Dalgina, Vasiliy, Eclipse…
The man frowned and looked at the young woman’s hut. He was surprised to see her figure on the porch, and made an effort to walk in that direction. He didn’t know what he could say to her, but the merchant was nothing if not good at improvising.
Levent lifted his head and smiled as he crossed the cobblestone road, approaching the porch of the small house and making a point to give Eclipse the absolute brightest, warmest grin he could. “Merhaba, tatlı,” he greeted gently, leaning slightly on one of the wooden posts, his atrocious posture making him look small. He avoided asking if she was okay—what a ridiculous question, he couldn’t imagine she’d feel like she’d ever be okay—and only continued to smile, lending whatever happiness he could to her.
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