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"Luha..." the voice was deep and hoarse, racked with pain and unbearable for K'luha to listen to. She slowly lifted her head. The exhaustion weighed so heavily on her shoulders, just lifting her head was a strain. An act of sheer will power. Her eyes looked blurrily down at the figure in front of her. Once pale perfect skin, burnt and singed into something almost unrecognizable. The burns were so bad even if K'piru had gone on treating him he... "Luha..." The dying male called to her, his burnt and bandaged hand lifting up from the padding on which he lay in the sand.
"N-no Haega... don't... s-save your strength..." Luha whimpered softly, taking his hand desperately and pushing it down again. She could only faintly bare to look at his burnt and mangled face. The fireballs had hit so hard... and he couldn't run as fast anymore since...
"It's time... I can... I can feel it..." Again K'luha's brother spoke and with every word K'luha felt as if she might crumble. She shook her head no, although she knew he was right. Ever since they had started treating him they knew, she knew, and even he knew he was going to die. The burns were too severe, in too many places to ever recover fully.
"N-no. You're wrong! Y-you're... it's not..." K'luha sobbed desperately, like if she just kept denying it that he would live. If she could believe hard enough, he would stay a little longer with her. The once handsome face smiled at her and K'luha could barely make out the movement through the bandaged and burns. It shattered her heart to see him like this. "Brother..." she choked, grasping tightly at his hand and pressing it to her forehead. "This isn't... you can't leave me... it's all my fault... y-your leg... if I hadn't... all those years ago... then you could r-run and...!" The words came in broken pieces. She couldn't string them together properly, but he smiled again and K'luha knew that he understood her.
"It's not your fault Luha... it's okay.... I forgive you..." K'yhaega called weakly, his once strong and deep voice fading as he spoke. K'luha cried harder as his hand began to weaken in her grip. She gripped at him harder and pulled at his arm like it would keep him alive.
"No! K'yhaega! No! You can't leave me! You can't die! Stay with me! K'yhaega! Brother!" K'luha screeched the words with a terrible desperation that everyone in the tribe had been feeling since the Calamity. She pulled and shook at her brother's arm but he only smiled until he went completely limp and was gone. K'luha grasped at his face, shook him more and more violently and screeched for him to come back, but he did not stir. It was not until a strong arm grabbed her shoulder that K'luha looked back. K'yohko stood behind her, shaking his head. For all of her bitterness at K'yohko, she could not help but to stand shakily and hug him tightly. He stood as a rock for her when everything was falling to pieces. Even that emotionless face that drove her crazy, she was glad to see him unchanged in the aftermath.
They stood for a few moments in an embrace before Luha pulled back, crying in small choked sobs.
"I'll take care of his body." Was K'yohko's only words. K'luha could only nod and wipe her eyes, looking down at her brother's body again. If only she hadn't... his death was her fault. She could have saved him if she hadn't... K'yohko spoke again and broke her thoughts. "Find K'ailia."
"K'ailia...?" Luha echoed back. It was then that she realized K'ailia had left her side while she was watching over K'yhaega and trying to tend to both of their wounds. She must have passed out from the exhaustion. "K'ailia!" Panic struck K'luha and she pushed past K'yohko, still crying. Sand kicked up behind her as she ran across the sands of the tribe still, looking every which way. Her burnt hands and feet and hair and face didn't matter. "K"ailia!?" K'luha screeched again, searching for her daughter. Where would she go? Why would she leave? K'luha wasn't good at medicine like K'piru and the others. She had tried to fix K'ailia's burnt head but she knew she hadn't done very much to help. She wasn't even looking where she was going. She opened her mouth to scream for K'ailia gain but instead tripped over a rock and skidded into K'ile and K'piru's tent. Luckily it was through the entrance, but she skidded in hard and fast, enough that she might have knocked into both of them if they weren't paying attention enough to avoid her. Then again, she hadn't been quiet in coming.
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