Arrow Lake Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

An inkling of their life was revealed, and Sadiq couldn’t say he was surprised. Their family tended to stick together, if there were enough of them around, he had no doubt they would try and stake a claim. He was sad to hear of mother nature stealing what they had built, but that was the way of the world sometimes.

What did surprise him, was the falling out she mentioned. Takiyok and Siarut not getting along, was like saying there was never snow in winter. They were as thick as thieves, the very epitome of brotherly sisterly expression. What the hell had happened.

This apparent discord didn’t stop her from reacting to his judgment of their old brother. It wasn’t that he hated the guy, quite the opposite, he wished that he could be him. Hoped that he could have grown up with a fraction of the pride and attention their father had showered upon him. The eldest son, the once and future king, blah blah blah.

Rolling his eyes, not concerned by his sisters anger. “Come on Takiyok, you know father wanted Sia to take over once he was gone. And then he just up and left. Tomkin always does stupid shit, he gets himself in trouble and then mother forgives him and all is right. There was no reason to leave.” Sadiq didn’t mention that their father had killed the pups, his grandchildren. It was only right. Only the supreme pair could breed. Swallowing thickly at his line of thought, flashes of his youngest siblings drowning in their own blood, Shila was the supreme ruler now.

“If he had stay, if you had stayed. Everything could have been so different.” There was an unknown sadness that settled in his voice, the last year had been torturous for the young man who could never live up to his fathers expectations. He could never be the right child. He was never the one anyone wanted. His mother called for Tomkin, or Tahani. And their father was to stubborn to miss Takiyok and Siarut.