Two Rivers Isle don't splosh kids!

For a while he stood still, no longer waiting for fish but lost in his own thoughts. His mind pushed him back to before Malice had left them. Over and over, the whys and whats played in his mind, but the one sentence that was the loudest was 'why did she leave?' Sadly, he knew not of the answer. Perhaps if there was an explanation, his mind could be at ease, but no, the wolf was left in a pool of questions that could never be answered.

He flinched at the sound of a voice, not expecting a different noise to lay among the water's own. The fact that this voice knew his name startled him. Issun slowly turned himself, looking towards the source. That pelt. So familiar. Sage maybe? No. Not at all.

Malice

She stood tall before him, a stance he had seen many times before. It was so familiar that he felt the need to bow before his queen. Wait. She left me. Those three words stopped him from doing anything. Issun could only stay put, as still as a statue. His expression was not as he expected. No anger, just pain. The pain of seeing the one he had sworn loyalty to. The one he had fought for. The one who had left them all. Left him.

Nothing came from his mouth then. There was a still silence. He didn't know where to start. All he would say was a simple: "Why?"