Greatwater Lake and so the drum beats on

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Vaati’s reply is genuine, this Kjalarr can tell and the viking suppresses the urge to let out a low groan of dread; he understands. The scarred northman does not need elaboration on the boy’s response, he detects the double meaning to the words which could have been taken at face value but was not meant as such Kjalarr suspects. Kjalarr is helplessly his father’s son, sure, but he is also himself more than he is anyone else and being him and actively pursuing the desire to be superior has seen him in much strife over his two years of life. Even now, full into his adulthood it sees him strife. Power is dangerous. All it has done for him is cause problems and breed the greed and selfishness that is so intricately worked into his being that though Kjalarr recognizes it as problematic he is not sure he can ever untangle itself from it’s web. Perhaps, he thinks, when he is old and grey he will be able to change his ways but the fire of (supposedly) Odin’s blood runs too hot within his veins and he cannot yield or turn from the call of his fate.

Besides being a dangerous path the truth is the path of a conqueror is a very lonely one. He is estranged from wolves whom once called him family some blood and some not. Even in the face of possibly losing his son Arrille whom he understands he could be on his way to having back with him if he would have been able to humble himself, to submit to the ranks of a pre-established pack of the Wilds Kjalarr cannot. He cannot bow. He has tasted victory, he has supped on power and he is lost to it’s control. It’s temptations. “It is treacherous,” Kjalarr muses aloud for Vaati’s sake giving him a vague insight to his thoughts speaking of both power and Sawtooth Spire. “if I take you there,” because the Viking wanted something out of this, of course. “if I guide you up it’s treacherous paths so that you may see the Sawtooth in all of it’s true glory you will take me to meet your mother.” Because Kjalarr is undeniably curious and he feels that this is a fair trade.

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