Wheeling Gull Isle better place

His son’s abject refusal at once dismayed and moved him.

I’m sorry, he whispered wretchedly, I don’t want to scare you, Ju. But I fucked up… I fucked up so badly our entire family left.

And even though Judah believed in him, it just couldn’t patch the cracks the others had left, the cracks that deepened and lengthened until his psyche and his soul crumbled and fell apart.

I fucked up and it can never be fixed, Caracal suddenly moaned, slipping his forelegs away from Judah’s neck as he curled into a ball on the ground. The next words came out on a wail, I fucked it up beyond all repair!