 Was I?
I was too lazy to play.
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Swallowbane did love his mother. He loved the woman more than almost anything else in the world, almost anyone else in the world. That was what family was after all. Family was loving each other unconditionally—he had Moonglow and Orca, Cael, Calista, Wren and Ramiel. He had his family, and maybe some male trust issues… noting that his father and brother were strikingly absent from the list. Though the dark creature nodded softly, he didn’t want to hurt his mother’s feelings. He couldn’t bear her disappointment. It was the only thing he couldn’t handle, point blank or at a distance.
There were creatures of his more supposed than practiced family that he’d like out of the picture. Flatly gone was a good way of thinking about it. He’d get rid of the child first, picking her off and making it look like an accident. That’s the best way to do it, of course… make it look like an accident, plain and simple. One day they’d go climbing and she’d just slip. The hunting skills that Alcide was having him acquire would be made use of in a far different way. How strange it would be to encourage the development of such skills and then be on the business end of them. Bane should like to see his face in the end. He’d like that all along.
“It’s weird to think my parents have been together forever and to know there are only four of us, really. Leave it to father to pick out his fucking new hope to be fit to rule us one day. Bullshit, it is.” She was flat out stupid. Swallowbane couldn’t help but want the creature gone. Always trying to nip at his heels, always trying to get his attention. He had better things to do. He had children of his own to attend to without stupid little sisters getting in the way. She was always in the way.
“It’s because they believe the cliché—family isn’t everything.” And it was Swallowbane that wanted to prove that the truest thing of them all. His tail swished slowly at his haunches, gaze slowly turning to Tesseract’s pale face. The look is striking, stunning.
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calista’s heart and soul
try to amplify the sound of light and love |