Moonspear long in tooth and soul

in the moment of silence arcturus too thought of dirge's family -- and how his departure might have changed their lives. yet in the end, is that not what a single life was? a cataclysm of events that caused a network, a web even, of constantly changing, never-in-stasis chaos events?

it led him down a strange corridor of thought; what if dirge had never been born? and what if arcturus had not? how different would the spear be, the lives of his family now non-family?

such thinking was overwhelming; arcturus blinked and shook his head, catching the tail end of dirge's affirmation he would never return. selfishly, arcturus thought this just -- for dirge had made a family here, and in the way of selfish people, arcturus was convinced that he and his family were, well... more important now.

"that may be for the best," he began, the ghost of a smile trailing his lips. "for, we're kind of your family now anyway. you're stuck with us."