Ocean's Breath Plateau sky riders

he knits his little brows, pouting his lips as frustration shakes from a body far too small to withhold it.
i don't want the spirits to take anyone!

losing aaka would be just as bad as aapa. even if she did fail, even if she does make him angry, to lose her for aapa wouldn't fix anything. he listens to her speak, and wonders what would it be like if the spirits had taken her instead of his father. if his father was in this position, would he sing the same praises? would he even be here with ghelan at all?

and i do not deserve you. sorrow replaces his anger, but he'd cried enough already.

why the spirits take him? brave one turns more of himself to his mother, his expression softening.
you look so much like him, you know. is it becus of me? perhaps the spirits decided that only one of them could exist, then.