Fox's Glade [m] porcelain

here comes the BOY

Kallik was married and Arlette was gone.

Was it any wonder his descent from the Sunspires passed in a haze? Merrit hardly remembered deciding to head towards Fox's Glade again. His movements were instinctual, pressing him towards a place that had once meant comfort to him, despite being devoid of everything he had given his life to protect. Kallik was his own protector now, and he had failed Arlette.

He found himself around the place where his sister had buried Kaito. She had been careful to maintain his grave while she had been in Easthollow, and Merrit had helped, but their absence had led to the grave's neglect and it took Merrit too long to find the place where they had laid his body down. But once he had found it, he took to breaking away the vines and branches that poked over the grave and busied his mind with thoughts of what to do next.