Moonspear long in tooth and soul

dirge’s unrevealing of his inner nature had arcturus promptly investigating his own. he was more like charon than he knew — and found himself inwardly judging those of dirge’s families who had left their home..

yet in that vein, if dirge had not seen fit to put miles under his heels, he would never have come across the spear. he would not have found hydra, courted her, and continued not only charon and amekaze’s legacy, but his own. this left arcturus conflicted; and he realized he could not always view the world in such black and white contrast.

do you miss them? he found himself wondering — his gaze traveling subconsciously to the jagged peaks above where the two most important figures in his life rested. they looked down upon the world from that inhospitable and stern grave, intangible yet ever present — and arcturus hoped wherever lofty realm they were, that they were proud of the man their son was becoming.