where'd you go

While Charon considered what he could answer in response to Ragnar's question, Ragnar spoke again. Many of the words fell to deaf ears with Charon, for the boy was too young to understand much of it. He knew many words, but when they were formed into long and difficult sentences about drastic matters such as the life of a pack or the loss of his sister, Charon did not always understand what, exactly, it was about. Ragnar asked if he should leave to look for his siblings, but leaving was still something that Charon didn't really understand, since he had never left the Bay himself. He'd so far only experienced the 'forever' kind of leaving, and he didn't like that one, was all he knew. So he stood there and didn't respond right away when Ragnar asked him the questions, because he didn't quite understand the gravity of the words.

Charon watched Ragnar's one-eyed expression as the leader grimly looked upon the boy. Charon did not understand how the gods spoke to Ragnar, and he did not understand why, if taking one eye would help, taking the second wouldn't end up helping him. "Why not?" he asked Ragnar when the leader told him that the gods did not want any more eyes; not Ragnar's remaining eye, nor one of Charon's. He did not see how, if it helped the first time (though he saw little of it), it would not help again. And he'd do anything to get his siblings back.

Ragnar asked Charon to not be angry with Thistle, then. Charon knew what anger was and even though he wanted Ragnar to get back Liyaní and Kevlyn, he wasn't angry. He looked at Ragnar and said, " 'm not angry." He sighed and looked at Ragnar. "I don't know why they're gone. Didn't they like it 'ere?" With watery, shining deep blue eyes, the Ostrega child looked up at Ragnar's grim features, searching for the answers that the Jarl did not have either.