this fury is mine and it keeps me alive

[Apollo Haddix]

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we prey as wolves among the sheep
and slit the necks of soldiers while they sleep

He smiled as he listened to talk about the pups. It was strange to him to listen to this because it hadn’t been that long since he had been of similar age. Though now he could be considered more of an adolescent and on the rise of becoming an adult, he knew memories the wolves here had of him probably still lingered on the puppy they used to know.



"Oh," he muttered, when Savina mentioned her mate ship. Realizing perhaps that wasn’t the greatest reaction, he quickly corrected himself by adding a, "Congratulations!" He hoped she wouldn’t notice his slight slip up. "That’s great," he added, wondering who the (lucky) guy was. Maybe he even knew him. He hoped she would take his lack of questioning as an invitation to offer more detail.

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