Wheeling Gull Isle long in tooth and soul

soon, their age gap would not matter so much but now it meant everything. fear of consumption drives him to run faster and faster, but his legs were short and his coordination was poor. he found himself being digested.

judah isn't gentle per se when he gnaws on his brother's ear, but it doesn't hurt in the way that abel expected it to. still, he had worked himself up so much that he finds his vision clawing in at the edges, and before he can do anything to stop it the ground has come up to smother him too.

the last thing he sees are judah's eyes and the comet trail that followed.

he is only unconscious for three seconds. maybe five. blood trickles out from a small tear in his ear where judah's incisor split it as he fell, but abel is too dazed to feel any pain.

much like an infant that falls over than looks towards their parent, abel turns towards his older brother to see how he should react.