Altar of Twilight There is no reconciliation

kivaluk comes across the scene not too long after rodyn and chakliuk; and what he sees is nothing short of a massacre. at first, he isn't sure what he is seeing: blood, he can tell; but it takes a few seconds for shock perhaps to entirely wear off and for realization to set it.

it is tulukiri.

or it was.

what was left of her was in literal shreds.

the scene does not make him nauseous, but it ignites something akin to horror within him.

fear.

what if his father met a similar fate? if it was so, it wasn't as if his mother or him would know.

a numbness rushes into kivaluk then, forcing him to tear his eyes away from the gory scene. he does not tell chakliuk that he thinks it is unnecessary. instead, he settles for a numb silence that he would keep the entire rest of the journey back to moonglow.