Horizon Ridge all your letters in the sand

set after this thread

he took off from the border, and didn't stop. wanted to run until his legs gave out. everything had happened all at once. engel was gone, and he would not have children this season. the latter fact he knew already, but it had been drilled into his head today. the former. . .

aditya had scrabbled over the mountains and now looked out over a ridge comprised of many fragmented boulders that had once been united. the smell of the sea, so calming and familiar, hit him, a gust of cold salt, and he sobbed with relief at the smell of it, gulping huge breaths of air.

he thought of engel again, and flew into a rage. "kaminey!" he roared, words echoing over the waves. "chutiya! ja apna bajaa!" aditya hung his head, gasping, and struck the rock below with a paw, a few times until it began to hurt. scarlet blood oozed from a small cut in the pad, a dull stain on the dark surface.

he had lost nando, his best friend in the world, to the sea. the tawny wolf was almost certainly dead. engel had began to fill the gaping hole in his heart that nando had left, but now. . . now it was open again, gaping, bleeding, hollow.

this was almost worse. he had lost nando to the sea. he couldn't have prevented it.

but engel. . .engel was a fucking idiot. no more, no less.