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lokma - Kemal - September 13, 2025
The sun is only a spark in the sky when Kemal comes searching for @Soto.
Disa has not shown her face in days, leaving the pass with only two half-blind warriors and spirits of the dead to keep him company. He can smell weakness from the cracks as they begin to show, though he had to imagine they have been there for some time. Kemal is his father's son, and like a bull to the matador he had come to charge.
He supposed that his mind may have been made up long ago. A good leader did not sit idly while wolves died, bury their bodies and press forwards. He should have destroyed the snakes in the grass long ago, assessed risks and taken the necessary measures. That was what a leader did.
It was not about distribution or children or alliances so much as it was strategy. He had stayed because Leandros trusted the segundo, because he had loved him a way Kemal had only seen once before in his brother. Kemal had found a sense of duty in watching over Leto's young, in his constant patrols and his horribly risky hunts, but there was no room for that now. There were no children to watch, no borders worth patrolling, no caches he wanted to fill.
Should he find the segundo as he hoped, he would meet him with a snarl. No common language had to be shared, no words needed to be exchanged.
RE: lokma - Soto - September 16, 2025
it’s never when things are easy. soto sits upright as kemal’s long shadow bristles onto the scene, a chargeweight of menacing malice.
no pleasantries need exchanging; this duel is older than even the stones beneath their feet.
mourning must pass to the wayside. soto’s chin lifts.
his body tense.
go on then. urges the burning contempt in his single remaining eye.
RE: lokma - Kemal - September 16, 2025
How can he look at him so unfeeling? Does he not know what he's done, what he's done to them?
There's nothing about him that pleases Kemal now, and he is disgusted to think that Soto once tended to his wounds. He wanted nothing more than to rid the pass of this parasite, as though cleansing the land of him will save Verapaz from an eternal state of sorrow. Maybe Soto's lack of fear was pushing his rage to the limits.
Kemal does not want the pack, he does not want women or territory, not even the delicate plants Soto cultivates with such talent. He wants to erase what had killed the last brother he could care for.
Face wrinkling into what could only be a vile glare, Kemal shot forward with a jaw aimed at the back of the segundo's neck.
His father's voice rings in his ears now, mocking him to the beat of a raging herd of buffalo. 'Lokma, manda.'
No pressure for it to hit! I'm not sure how long you want this to go, so we only need to do rolls if you want to
RE: lokma - Soto - September 19, 2025
it should have been simple.
lift chin here, dodge there. counter here, bloodspill there.
but soto's days of fighting were done with two eyes. only one now, and that one misread the distance.
as he ducks it's a second too late. kemal's jaw collides against the thin bone of soto's temple -- and it is just so;
the killing blow
only he's not dead.
just knocked plain unconscious.
soto sinks into a swirling vortex of black; the very last thought that comes to him is marciela's cold, disapproving stare.
RE: lokma - Kemal - September 19, 2025
With only one blow, Soto falls.
Kemal finds himself in a momentary state of shock. He hadn't expected it to go like this at all; but is it for the best? He isn't dead, only unconcious. It brings Kemal some sense of relief.. he didn't deserve to escape that easily. Maybe he'll keep him for a time, hold him while he's weak and force him to feel what others have.
He stands over Soto now, a new sort of schwung to him. He's finally gained a taste for power, and it tastes nearly as good as the justice he feels he has served.
Eyes fixed on the segundo, his head lifts for only a moment to call for @Safiya. He wants her to see this too, as though he suddenly has something to prove.
Soto has been knocked off his pedestal, and now Kemal finds the room to climb higher.
RE: lokma - Soto - September 20, 2025
kemal climbs greatness to the sky; soto sinks deep into terrestrial limbo.
in this realm of black he hears the voices of many ghosts. either his eyes cannot see or he has been robbed of them; he fumbles, calling as the voices pull away.
he curses kemal's name.
where is he? he claws and climbs and calls until the machination in his throat simply cannot anymore.
then it as if what was holding solid beneath him gives way.
soto, endlessly falling -- while in the world above kemal's voice climbs over the chaparral plains and calls for safiya.