LIKE A WALK IN THE PARK, LIKE A HOLE IN YOUR HEAD

Ehiyeh's ear flicked as the fish landed in next to her. She glanced at it. The sentiment was nice but her appetite had been incredibly nonexistent since that day, but perhaps she should give it a few nibbles, to show that it was appreciated if nothing else. And so as he spoke in his strange way, she picked at the fish, her teeth picking through the scales and tearing at the flesh below them. "I suppose we did." The woman said, her gaze moving from the fish and towards the animal parts that were scattered over the sand. They perhaps were not friends to her but they had been cherished all the same, until they had all become accusing and taunting, whispering harsh words and threats in the dark. They had been exiled to the beach, to the ocean, special no more.

"Thank you for the food regardless." Ehieyh looked at him, knowing full well that he would recognize the absence of appetite. She doubted, though, that it would offend him. He had always been so strange, seemingly even more removed from the world than she. Unlike the rest of her family, it seemed, family ties resonated strongly with her. It was good to know that there was a place where those that shared her blood would welcome her, would understand her. It was even more comforting now than it had been before.

His inquiry about 'making it better' caused the woman to tilt her head. "Make it better?" Ehiyeh said, breathing a weary sigh. What was there to make better? His brood was growing inside of her even as they spoke, pups that she could perhaps not love but could at least raise. They would be constant reminders of him, but they were also of her blood, her father's and mother's. They were as much her as they were him, and if she could do such a thing, any trace of him would be erased. The pups would wonder, surely, but it was not a matter of that- her offspring would never be his.

"How... how can you make it better, brother? You cannot fix what you cannot see..." She regarded him with an aloof, distant expression, the fish lying forgotten near her feet. Ehiyeh clenched her toes, claws digging into the sand. "Whatever you do Erebos, you cannot turn back time."

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