Blackfeather Woods nothing but the burnt edge of an unfinished history

for @Astrid and @Potema if you want to throw her in here alisha ...perhaps he could be taken as a captive since he slipped from the face of the earth the last time? :0 might be fun to play captive!kja, but ofc we can play this out and see where it goes icly! :-)

Atli is not sure why he can’t just leave the Wilds behind once and for all. The back and forth and inconsistency drives him crazy. He’d came for Potema the first time …and perhaps it is for the priestess that he comes back now. Some part of him thinks that it’s true because he hadn’t wanted to leave the first time, not really. He’d balked when he’d learned of her pregnancy admittedly. It’s not as if he’d been ready to be a father when he’d spawned Vaati with Potema ( though admittedly he didn’t mind that as much because he hadn’t ever anticipated seeing either again ) and he hadn’t been ready to be a father when he’d spawned Arille. He certainly doesn’t want to be a father to children that are not his own but Potema’s been a nagging enigma in his mind. Something about her is gravitational to the northerner even though there is a part of him that wishes that he wasn’t so taken with her. Atli knows that he might be resigning to his death or a fate worse than death.

He nears the borders marked with rotting carcasses, blood and bones, lifts his muzzle skyward and lets out a howl announcing his presence and lowers his body to the ground in submission, part of him fighting the action. He was a King once. A poor King, for sure, but even so. Now he is prostrating himself before the borders of a pack led by a girl for the selfish want of attention of it’s High Priestess; because if there’s one thing Atli Kjalarr’s always been good at: it’s being selfish.

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