Moonspear By the Sword

That post was beautiful <3 I'll definitely miss Nishu! I'll finish this and post a follow up thread set right after this. ^^

The moment in which life flooded from Nishu seemed to take forever. Charon was not sure how long it was, and neither was he sure whether or not Nishu had been dead for some time when he finally released his grip on Nishu's throat. As he stepped back and licked the blood from his lips and teeth, Charon looked at his dead pack mate and realised just what he had done. He had taken a life. Doubt gripped him, and he considered lying to his pack about what had happened, making up a ruse, saying that someone or other had come onto pack lands and had murdered Nishu, not him. Maybe the bear, maybe a wolf from another pack. But everything he could think of seemed dangerous, too dangerous, for someone could investigate and find no scents of aforementioned bear or wolves. Not that Charon expected his wolves not to trust him and to investigate on their own, but still.

That didn't mean that Charon intended to tell the full truth to anyone who wished to hear. He wouldn't tell them that he had fully aware decided to kill Nishu, even if he did not realise the burden such an act would bring until after it had been completed. He would not tell them that he thought eliminating the weak link that took their resources was for the better of the pack.

No. Charon would tell them something else, surely. Blood continued to trickle down the young Alpha's face while he looked down at the dead knight, who suddenly looked oddly peaceful. Eventually the blood on his face stopped pouring out and scabbed over. "You can rest now," he murmured. Charon was not sure how to feel, divided among his emotions: one side of him felt empowered, as though the gods themselves had sent him a sign that he was the powerful King who could take lives as he pleased, in whose way none would stand without being crushed. The other part of him felt horrified at the thought of taking a life with his own teeth. That second part of him was easily cushioned by simply telling himself that it was not just for his own good and for the pack's good that he had done this, but for Nishu's, too. He could rest, now, could be a better Knight in death than he was in life... wherever he would go.