The King grieved, in his own quiet way. He had seen death in many forms and during the War he had watched Flora's twin die, important because he was important to Flora, but otherwise a stranger to the mermanta.
Ray's death was different.
He showed and shared his pain with a few close friends, but he could not allow himself to become lost in it. With great power had come great responsibility, and he had given up the right to fall apart when he had asked Safrin for her blessing and a crown. He mourned but he moved forward, facing the next threat to his people.
He had been unable to save his friend.
He would not be found so lacking again.
A spear of ice struck at the large, heavy skull that rested shallowly in the tide. It had a cyclopean appearance, massive and dense with a great hole in its center, but though a jagged crack ran through it from the point of impact it was the spear that shattered rather than the sea-polished cranium. Hadama's expression revealed no outward frustration, but his eyes shone sapphire as he reformed the weapon and reinforced it before striking again with a dull reverberation that echoed down the deadly island's beach.
Edmund
Ray's death was different.
He showed and shared his pain with a few close friends, but he could not allow himself to become lost in it. With great power had come great responsibility, and he had given up the right to fall apart when he had asked Safrin for her blessing and a crown. He mourned but he moved forward, facing the next threat to his people.
He had been unable to save his friend.
He would not be found so lacking again.
A spear of ice struck at the large, heavy skull that rested shallowly in the tide. It had a cyclopean appearance, massive and dense with a great hole in its center, but though a jagged crack ran through it from the point of impact it was the spear that shattered rather than the sea-polished cranium. Hadama's expression revealed no outward frustration, but his eyes shone sapphire as he reformed the weapon and reinforced it before striking again with a dull reverberation that echoed down the deadly island's beach.
Edmund
