The Tangle from the heart of the universe

clearly, the abandonment of his mother is a sore spot for the boy; understandable ...if it doesn't also raise the question in a small part of the tundrian's mind of why. surely, the adolescent had been too young — little more than a mewling newborn still not even weaned — to have even remembered her. nevertheless; wintersbane concedes to the boy's wishes. okay, okay. wintersbane says; whiskey-steeped baritone lowered. meant to assure, to calm.

things happened. i was injured severely and i had to spend time out of these wilds to recover from. the bear attack. the plummet into the ocean. the being spit out on some foreign lands. the truth but something that wintersbane does not hold onto. he will not endlessly explain himself. was he not a champion of 'the past was the past and that is where it should stay'?

when i tried to return to sagtannet, wylla turned me away. for good reason, even if it left a creator's sting that would not entirely fade. he could've tried again when he took thade back to them but ...he hadn't escorted thade back to sagtannet to make himself a hero or try to win favor. he'd done it for the boy; nothing else.

so now, wintersbane draws. i'm starting anew.