Boartusk Heights when the black cloud comes, if one flame flickers

brother!!! <333

He had already been watching. As daylight aged to night; as the sky shed its pale greys for a vibrant display of colours once unknown to him.

Pressure on his back alerted Emilio's forceful arrival. Diego wheezed as his brother squished him under heavy paws and he reached back to give a warning nip at the air. His brother's eyes were open, too, gazing at the same sky.

It forged a solidarity in Diego's mind. Brothers, by blood and name. His throat rumbled with a soft and boyish coo, the mark of a question attached at the end.

Did you dream of these things, too?

Though he could not guess at the answer.