Neverwinter Forest doesn't matter anymore if what we say is true

for @Iiana; also, oops sorry you get a moody kivaluk. wasn't where i saw this post going when i started writing it, lol.

his mother has found happiness ... and presumably akkuma and his father, too! ... but all kivaluk feels is brewing resentment, detachment and confusion. warring and stormborn emotions that fester the longer he does not act upon them.

but how?

he paces in the heart of neverwinter forest, close to moonglow but far enough away to feel like it's allowing him to clear his mind.

why did they even exist?

why did he feel these things? where did they stem from? was it because he was a year old and he was celebrating — if skulking in the forest could be considered celebrating — by himself?

he was accomplished. he was second hunter — maybe first now that rodyn had split from the pack.

and it wasn't as if he didn't want his mother to move on, to find the happiness she deserved.

perhaps, secretly, it was fear of abandonment, as kigipigak and akkuma have abandoned him. perhaps he saw her new happiness, the new cubs she was carrying as the signs that he wasn't important anymore. unneeded.

the snow fell, thick grey clouds obscured what little sunshine he'd chased that morning into neverwinter's heart and his mood sours.