4/25/2025, 6:36 PM
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It was not one of his few remaining children who approached, nor a packmate. Well...Cupid supposed the boy was a packmate.
But he was always much more than that, wasn't he? Since before his birth, this one had been yoked to his goddess-mother's gilded and blood-soaked path to victory. The memory of what this still-young boy had done to Cupid's own son had only soured worse since Trygve had been lost to them. The idea that one of Trygve's brothers had attacked his son during the fleeting, minute season that boy got to live, was a wound that never healed deep within Cupid's soul. But he'd been trying, despite their tendency to avoid one another, to see the son of Tyr he hoped was within the foul whelp.
Besides the somewhat-fading scent of his father on his pelt, Cupid could see nothing of the Tyr he knew in the child, still.
He halted, sat down in the flower-freckled field, and pricked his ears when Sverke spoke to indicate his interest. Holding a grudge against a pup no more than a year old didn't sit right with Cupid, but he struggled all the same. Right now, in his current mood, he wasn't sure he had much patience left for himself - let alone the Prince.
I wouldn't be the first one to spot them if they were back,He snarked, lightly, not quite sure if it was genuinely meant as a joke or if he was just trying to cover for a snide remark.
Cupid took a breath.
What if Tyr was dead, his mind supplied, and who was going to care for the orphans left behind? Who would guide these precocious, fierce warriors-to-be away from the rage that was sure to try to claim their souls and minds?
Cupid sent up a small prayer for strength, for gentleness, to the goddesses he followed.
They will return to us when they can, may the gods speed their passage.He finally offered, vying for some semblance of reassuring without giving the boy too much false hope.
We should...
He wanted to swim off this island, turn every rock and leaf over until he found his daughter.
Stay focused, on hunting and patrolling, in the meantime. How has your training been progressing?
