Ouroboros Spine All I have to do is breathe

The explanation that was offered was long-winded. Samani listened to each word and mulled the information over in her mind.

After a short period, she was still certain that she did not understand how he had garnered pride from his actions, how he had continued with his life without severe shame. The moon child did not know it, but even her early perception of him was tarnished by the image of what he had explained. Kigipigak did not act with honor toward his family. He had laid his father to ‘rest’ with brute force. There was no resting in such actions. These things Samani could not vocalize.

You left anyway.

The jade of her gaze slipped from his scarred features and to the stretch of Moonglow beneath their perch. Samani shifted, mildly uncomfortable. She didn’t understand the importance of the information he’d shared. As she grew, she would hold this as a bias against Kigipigak until he was able to prove himself a good man. In the eyes of the moon child, he had only admitted a wrongdoing.

If you are here, I think your sisters were wiser. They were banished, but you are not a part of that village either. They did not have to become bad to do it.

Samani smiled to him. Bad and good, right and wrong, all of these subjects were clearly black and white in the eyes of a child.