Ouroboros Spine i am made of memories

i am so sorry for the delayed response in this! <3

thickly, kivaluk swallows, trying not to take aiolos' words personally. he doesn't think the sunking necessarily means it like that, but all the same he can't help but be a little insulted by them. they smart against his flesh, burrowing in his heart.

i know. he had witnessed both his parents leaving him, leaving each other. and even now, when he is well grown and facing becoming a father himself, it still leaves its scar upon him.

it was his own personal template for what not to do.

the only thing that will take me from chickadee and our children would be death itself. he says this with a bit more bite than he means but he means what he says all the same. i've been left. and there is no force on this earth while i draw breath that would make me put my wife or my children through that.