He approached K'piru, and set aside the items he'd brought. A canteen of warm water. Dried meats, hunted days ago. Pitiful offerings. His answer to her question would be no better, he knew. He would give her whatever she needed, but it wasn't as much as he felt she deserved. They all deserved better, but her especially.
K'ile dropped to his knees in front of her, and reached out to touch her, laying a hand across her wrists, pulling them nearer to him. Trying to connect with her. "It wasn't fair," he said, and the simple, childish honesty of it was chill in the air. His tail shivered. "It wasn't anything anyone could fight. Magic. They broke the sky itself. Everything was on fire. The sky, the earth, our bodies. My eyes were on fire, and I saw vicious light breaking the ground. Everything... fell..."
He stopped. The nightmare overwhlemed his words. He couldn't speak the sight of Thalen's body burning, of all the bodies burning around him. Proud voices crying out as though the screams were being squeezed from their lungs. K'ile averted his eyes from K'piru, looked at the red stones on the bracelets he wore.
K'ile dropped to his knees in front of her, and reached out to touch her, laying a hand across her wrists, pulling them nearer to him. Trying to connect with her. "It wasn't fair," he said, and the simple, childish honesty of it was chill in the air. His tail shivered. "It wasn't anything anyone could fight. Magic. They broke the sky itself. Everything was on fire. The sky, the earth, our bodies. My eyes were on fire, and I saw vicious light breaking the ground. Everything... fell..."
He stopped. The nightmare overwhlemed his words. He couldn't speak the sight of Thalen's body burning, of all the bodies burning around him. Proud voices crying out as though the screams were being squeezed from their lungs. K'ile averted his eyes from K'piru, looked at the red stones on the bracelets he wore.
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