Bearclaw Valley A glimpse of you, a remnant trace

Aventus supposed that meant he would need to do it sooner rather than later if he wished to impress his father. He tongued one of his canines in thought. I will, he assured Merrick. It might take him some time to find a victim from whom to steal a tooth, but eventually he would.

A part of him believed that he would never be able to live up to his parents' legacy. Unlike Avicus, he was not single-mindedly interested in death; in truth, he thought his sister was a little dull in the head, and he thought he was too intelligent by far to be anything like her. Still, she was the picture of what their parents expected, while Aventus felt he fell short by not obsessing over blood and flesh the way they all did.

He would need to prove himself in his own way, someday.