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and all the damage that might make me dangerous - Ghelan - 10/10/2025
SKILL blood moon event
as ice began to form at the tips of the trees and cold fronts stretch across the lands beyond the snow-tops, the ice between akiak and ishmira had begun to melt. searching for blackfell had taught them both that if they were to stay warm and fed, they would have to work together and get along. tonight was a little different. tonight akiak did something he rarely did — think.
he sat at the bank of a lake. legs ached from many days of travel and little food. they hurt so much, that pain had returned to the accursed left hind and it coursed through like the slithering of maggots underneath skin. the moon seared scarlet but he was not afraid of it. there was even something comforting to the moon, reminded of the warmth in his mother's vibrant eyes. no, he was not frightened by it. he was saddened by the moon and all that it meant. if he angled himself just right, he would once again have two eyes. but it was not the same, nothing would ever be the same.
but he knew what he did when he challenged his father. ishmira never demanded he confronted his father, and even if she was lucky enough to have never crossed paths with ghelan the fight would've been inevitable.
that's right. at first, getting along with ishmira felt like a blessing. but now, now as he stares into himself, as his mind retraces where he went wrong, his stomach began to wretch. to say akiak had his mother's eyes was a lie, for an evil sat in his where there was good in hers.
because what was more evil than leaving behind your ailing mother?
he was still a boy then but that was hardly a reason. he is a stupid, stupid boy but he is not mindless. he knew what it meant to leave his mother, not just that but leave her for his father. a man his heart always knew was terrible. his aapa was a bad man. his father was a bad man. akiak knew this truth his whole life and it was only now he finally believed it.
he was bad too. this was also a truth. and a truth he'd known since the day he was born, the boy swore. that mangled limp, the first way he wronged his mother. the second when he rejected any attempt for her to move on. the third, the worst, when he abandoned her.
akiak could no longer bring himself to look at ishmira anymore. not tonight, when guilt shook his steel. may they find her father soon, before he makes a mistake he can never undo.