I guess so. But I was just a kid. It seemed like a reasonable thing to do at the time.
[ He forces his tone to lighten, forces himself to act like he still doesn't want to take a step forward, doesn't want to go up to that door and pry it open. Doesn't still have a tiny bit of hope left in his heart that his brother will still impossibly somehow be in there waiting for him.
The ripple has the hair on the back of Cain's neck rising, but he can't look away either. He never thought he'd see Torhid again. Never thought he'd see this house again, this moment in time when it feels like possibility is fragile and precious. This split second when his brother might, somewhere in this devastated land, still be alive somewhere, if he could just go search the entire kingdom and find him. ]
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[ He forces his tone to lighten, forces himself to act like he still doesn't want to take a step forward, doesn't want to go up to that door and pry it open. Doesn't still have a tiny bit of hope left in his heart that his brother will still impossibly somehow be in there waiting for him.
The ripple has the hair on the back of Cain's neck rising, but he can't look away either. He never thought he'd see Torhid again. Never thought he'd see this house again, this moment in time when it feels like possibility is fragile and precious. This split second when his brother might, somewhere in this devastated land, still be alive somewhere, if he could just go search the entire kingdom and find him. ]