5/5/2025, 12:47 AM
tw: gore, maiming
"cruelty kept you alive. your mother wanted to throw you away. i did not allow it. that is why i punished her." a cruel lie, a barb made stolid by the jut of kusaxasaa's chin toward his son's withered leg. it had not been so, but he heard what he felt was wavering, and pressed forward first with words. "your sharadoii grandfather traded your mother to me with no thought of what children might be born. he was willing to let her die. that is the rot in your blood."
the moon tribes.
another mistake.
kusaxasaa backhanded ghelan with a mass of filthied claws; "i will show you what the moon tribes taught!"
in sharadoii, the first time that sun eater had spoken such in many months.
ghelan bore the sin of his mother with the beating.
and when the lanzadoii hunter rose again, it was with the glint of his son's leftmost eye in his jaws.
into the dust.
"i exile you, akiak of the sharadoii. leave this land. you have fought upon the side of those who maimed your brother and turned against your father. you are no longer lanzadoii."
the moon tribes.
another mistake.
kusaxasaa backhanded ghelan with a mass of filthied claws; "i will show you what the moon tribes taught!"
in sharadoii, the first time that sun eater had spoken such in many months.
ghelan bore the sin of his mother with the beating.
and when the lanzadoii hunter rose again, it was with the glint of his son's leftmost eye in his jaws.
into the dust.
"i exile you, akiak of the sharadoii. leave this land. you have fought upon the side of those who maimed your brother and turned against your father. you are no longer lanzadoii."