K’yohko’s breath felt heavy and ragged, a faint wheeze to his lungs as the simple act lifted and raised his chest with so much effort. His eyes flicked across, watching K’nahli’s quickly fleeting form with eyes that so rapidly dulled from their earlier flame. His stomach hung heavily in his chest, and something seemed to catch in his throat as he breathed so heavily. The words were not what he had meant to say, but they had been said. If there was nothing that did not prick K’yohko liked thorns, it was only that K’nahli and K’lyhri would help defend the family.
The Nunh’s dulling eyes flicked to his estranged daughter, and his lips pressed tightly to one another. There was a faint whitishness to them that had not be there before, and the same draining of color seemed to pull at this skin and his eyes.
“Yes…†The word was soft and hushed, absent of the rage that had so consumed him before. With K’nahli’s departure to defend the tribe, there was a certain air of relaxation to him now. Certainly, he was not relaxed, but his rage seemed to have been quelled now. “I can get myself there. Please…†His lips paused, his breathing hanging raggedly in the air between them. “Join the other huntresses. Protect the family. I will join you all when I have been seen.â€
K’yohko turned away from his daughter, his ears having returned to their natural, if not sagging, state. His tail hung behind him, dragging in the dust as his feet too dragged through the sand to guide him in a vague direction of K’zhumi’s tent.
The Nunh’s dulling eyes flicked to his estranged daughter, and his lips pressed tightly to one another. There was a faint whitishness to them that had not be there before, and the same draining of color seemed to pull at this skin and his eyes.
“Yes…†The word was soft and hushed, absent of the rage that had so consumed him before. With K’nahli’s departure to defend the tribe, there was a certain air of relaxation to him now. Certainly, he was not relaxed, but his rage seemed to have been quelled now. “I can get myself there. Please…†His lips paused, his breathing hanging raggedly in the air between them. “Join the other huntresses. Protect the family. I will join you all when I have been seen.â€
K’yohko turned away from his daughter, his ears having returned to their natural, if not sagging, state. His tail hung behind him, dragging in the dust as his feet too dragged through the sand to guide him in a vague direction of K’zhumi’s tent.
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