Blacktail Deer Plateau Back in the days

It wasn’t long before he was standing across from her, body rigid as he tried his best to maintain his composure. He missed seeing her, speaking to her—he considered her a friend once, even family, but now he wasn’t so sure. She turned on her mother, sending her away from her own home, so who was to say she wouldn’t do the same to him? What was keeping her from turning her back on him, too, and leaving him with yet another member of his family gone from his life?

There was so much he wanted to say, and yet, all it took was her saying a few words for him to go silent. His shoulders began to shake whilst his eyes burned with tears, threatening to fall; he was frustrated, he was angry—but, most of all, he was hurt. “Why?” he barely managed to choke out. Why did she side against her own mother? “Why… why didn’t you let her stay?” Were his actions now for nothing? Had he challenged the male before him for nothing, the role he thought to hold for Caiaphas now without her to take it back? The one that provided him with a home when he was all alone, following an owl that was also now gone—betrayed by her own kin and vanished into the wilds, never to return.

It wasn’t fair.