Moonspear tremble

the boy did not have the gumption for further questions, though underneath his dark scowl a thousand of them pressed to his tongue. he kept silent, patrolling alongside his father. someday, he would see the virtue to charon's words -- they were lessons hard won, but lessons only those that had gone under the crucible of life would ever understand.

too young to grasp such worldly concepts, arcturus rolled on -- someday, he would get it.

but not now.