Blackfeather Woods the good, the bad, the crazy

Euron looked over his sister's shoulder with focused care as she worked . He watched as the moss darkened to red with absorbed blood, and observed the ragged lines of flesh that had been cut into his father's hide. He saw how the skin moved and twitched and made the wounds alive. His was a deep and morbid curiosity, and he was fascinated by the gore before him. It would look so much better on a stranger... or on Potema... and when his mind drifted there he imagined running his tongue along the edges of those cuts.... and then Maegi spoke, snatching him away from fantasy and bringing him to a nightmare.

"I'm not going."

Euron stepped aside and maneuvered until he could see Maegi's face in full and not just her cheek and temple. Surely she was lying, or joking. Surely he would read some other message on her countenance. He tried to catch her eyes as her words hummed strangely through his head as though it was some faraway figure that was talking. She said so many things... but all he focused on were the names she spoke. Names that had taken up residence in her heart where only Ramsay and Euron ought to be, and where Cicero was welcome to be too.

The boy was stiff as his sister bumped her head against his white-patched shoulder, and he side stepped away from her almost immediately. He felt himself flush hot and was aware of the erratic cadence his heart had adopted. His sister was turning her back on them in favor of other wolves, and of things that were not even alive. Disbelief, anger, grief... all of it flashed across his face and was bared for the world to see. Until a baleful coldness settled in and held with the unwavering presence of an endless winter.

"I will come back." He said. His voice was marvelously chilling and fashioned with calculated emphasis. "I will come back... here." He took a step toward Maegi, never once letting his stygian stare stray away from her. He delivered the rest of his promise with grave finality. "But... I will never... come back... to...

...you."





He did not linger. Euron ghosted and was gone.