Ashes and Kingdoms

I should have known the time would come.

I should have been prepared for any of this because my black hair also greyed and I watched as more deep wrinkles grew on my burnt face in the day.

Still, the moment one of the connections behind his chest shuddered and broke, Finn creaked and curled as if the thread had broken on the spot as well.

Suddenly a surprise twitch spreads to Dragon Hou, who suddenly changes his blood phase and jumps out of the capitol. But Finn wasn't aware of the others. Under the glistening grey skies of snow, just hissing, running for a house.

Not yet. It's still early, a little more, not yet...

He jumps in as he breaks through the door, praying to take it to God's feet, and rushes into the twisted room.

"Dad!"

I screamed in a blurred voice, and I couldn't say anything. Fauna cried over Oandus, who fell on the floor, and Nellis was still desperately rubbing his father's body across the street.

"Wait, don't go"

With a small voice over and over again, check the pulse from time to time and rub your chest and hands and feet again.

Once before, Oandus had suddenly collapsed. Fortunately, he took his life and was told by a doctor to cure him, and since then he has left public office to rest in his home.

I felt safe in person and around me that it had gotten completely better because it had been taken away and there was no visible decay.

Finn stood still. The fire of life is extinguished, and I see nowhere a light that was so reliable and warm. It was clear that I had embarked on a journey that I would never return to.

While he was just losing himself, a servant must have gone to get him, Mac rushed.

"Nellis! What about Dad?"

Calling out loud from the front door, he stood breathless when he noticed Finn at the door of the room. I guess I guessed things out of that complexion. He also blued again and shook his lips.

As Finn avoided on the edge, Mac passed there silently, leaning against his wife and kneeling. Nellis clings, raises her voice and begins to cry.

Finally Finn also remembered what he needed to do as his son and cursorily went indoors. Put your hands gently on Fauna's back. The old mother raised her face and said, wiping her tears thoroughly.

"Suddenly... painful, hold your chest, sit back. But it was splendid. Tell you guys to stick together. To me too, don't be sad,... I can't believe it"

I can't, Fauna made a bitter laugh. The face as one woman and the face as a mother are replaced by every blink. After a while, she chose her mother's position.

"I was ready, but I knew it would be hard. But if you don't do what you have to do right... Finn, Mac, do me a favor"

Instructed, the two lay the body of Oandus first on the bunk. Waiting for a funeral parlor to clean up properly should not be left on the floor.

Nellis is still burying her face in both hands on the sleeping pillow. Mac had that shoulder, but since Fauna had already taken on an actual job, he was also called again to leave by his wife.

Fauna and Mac weep and proceed with the meeting. The whereabouts of the will, the funeral steps, the person to be informed.

"Sure, Dad said before,... it's not necessary..."

"Speaking of which, you did. Then..."

Instead of consulting Finn, they didn't even call him. With our own grief and duty in front of us, I guess we're already full of hearts and heads. For a long time, it was a common behavior to know that sometimes we decided that we should do this, not leave it to others.

The bereavement is the trace mac of the house, not the wife or daughter of the deceased, and also - not the dragon marquis. Finn was now more dull shocked by the matter.

You're my son. It would be a family, don't hesitate.

The voice of Oandus, who repeatedly said that to me, clings to the back of his brain. But by law, by custom, I do not inherit the Oandius family.

(Mac, too, you called him 'Dad' at some point)

Uncle, Mr. Oandus, I would have called him my father naturally, without even realizing it. Oandus' son wasn't Finn first, Mac was in that position.

Sooner or later it will.

I should have known. He who became a dragon horse can no longer mark the same time as his family. He said he couldn't join the family history.

The death of Oandus did not remain the loss of an individual, but was felt to have stripped all of the clan from its fins. Bite your lips and give your sister an eye.

The colour of so deep a sorrow swirls so much that you can barely see who you are. Finn gently placed his hand on his shoulder as he walked over quietly. I'm going to do that. Soon, I'll throw a soft light.

The act, which I just wanted to comfort, triggered a dramatic reaction.

"-!"

Nellis turned around in a shape he hadn't seen before. Light is blocked by the power of the priest - no, it is beaten back. When Finn wandered in flat handed by the spirit, she shouted to squeeze.

"Can't you be as human and sad as this!?

Silent lead crushed time. Mac and Fauna stare stunned and stare at their brothers and sisters as they find themselves in the fear of coming next. Finn was stoned without breathing, but when the tension reached its limit, he fled silently.

The waves that strike me wash even my heart. Over and over again.

Finn nodded in the shadow of a rock in an unpopular Iso, watching without even seeing the shaking water at his feet. My heart, which was frozen by shock and sorrow, breaks apart one by one as I am gently washed by the waves. Waiting for it, Auntie and Lena showed up.

Finn shook his head as calmly as possible to her letting down the gentle light.

"Thanks, but I'm sorry. Now... will you leave me alone?"

"No, you can't."

Lena looked like she was about to cry and shook her head.

"Don't be alone when you're so sad"

Don't die, I'll stare at Finn the same way I once pleaded. Well, Finn smiled bitterly as to whether I looked like I was dying right now.

"I'm fine. No, it's not all right at all... but I need it, Lena. Please, just let me go back to being human for a while."

Just a little. I won't refuse to bond and I'm not really saying I want to go back to being human, I just want to regain my old senses between bundles - and sue with my heart.

He got up and looked at the horizon. The edge of the ocean touching the sky, which is not a glowing blue blue like summer, but where the snow clouds are cut and thin gray, glitters in dull silver. It hasn't changed since I was a human being that just looking at the ocean like this without relying on Lena's light soothes my grief.

"It's not just because Nellis told me. If I had my heart as a dragon marquis to drop off my father, but just accepted it as a natural accomplishment... that's what I'd lose it all. That's what I feel. We spent less than a decade together as just human beings, much longer since we became dragon marquees. Still, the root of the bond with that guy is..."

My vision swayed unexpectedly, my voice clogged.

I can't go on with the words and stand up for a while not understanding what happened to me. Hot Shizukuishi passed down a number and a number of cheeks, and he finally remembered that it was tears.

When the funeral was over and the condolences cleaned up all the way and the life finally settled down.

Mac invited Finn out to visit Oandus' grave. The cold is somewhat tender and the sun is slightly warm.

Seasonal pattern with no flowers when it comes to graves, burning incense at best.

Mac coughed up small and cut it out as he looked up side by side as the thin smoke slowly rose.

"I spoke to Nellis the other day."

"Yeah?"

"About the day my father died."

"... oh"

Don't worry about it anymore, like I said, Finn shakes his head with an ambiguous bitterness. But Mac turned to face Finn and went on.

"It's not uncommon to say and do disruptive and outrageous things when you're in great sorrow. That's normal if you're human, so I won't apologize, and I know it was a cruel word, but I knew I meant it..."

"... oh yeah"

"Finally, when I arrived, I started taking funeral steps early, and I honestly wanted to kick it."

Sighs Seriously, it's what my brother-in-law says, and Finn accidentally lost his laugh. When Mac flaunted his shoulder with the same trick as before, he gently picked up the name engraved on the headstone with his hand.

"If I had a father, he'd scold me for fighting when we had to support each other."

Phew, and a smile comes to my mouth. The revelations of contemplation and admiration between the bundles, however, disappeared during one breath.

Once again he looked serious and looked up at Finn with gray eyes.

"I've talked a lot over a long time, and at the end of the day... sorry brother. I've settled into a very casual place."

"Please don't make such a bad forethought."

"If you don't excuse me first, I can't tell you this.... my brother will always be on the side to be dropped off and will never be on the side to be dropped off. Plus I'm a dragon marquis, so I don't cry or mess around like I'm just a human being. So please, when I drop you off, I want you to send me out calmly and without stopping. That way, we can rest assured that we'll leave the rest to our brother."

Asked to do something unexpected, Finn was stuck in a response. But I almost looked into his heart and Mac laughs bitterly.

"Nellis was strong enough to say, 'I forgive you for crying gaggy at my time,' because there was something before me that I said that. Sounds like the privilege of Dragon Marquis, but I can't say much about it. We're worried about our kids, anyway. If you cry when you die, you can't go to another world. But if you think your brother will take a good look at you, you can rest assured."

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"I know it's a cruel, unsolicited wish. But Nellis regrets it, too. I don't know why I couldn't properly drop my father off. I sweated in pain and ate my teeth, and they asked me to ask my mother, do it right, and I couldn't answer it."

Is it fulfilled by a man who lays his sorrow aside and reassures the departed when he loses his near one?

Finn turned his consciousness to the colors surrounding Mac as he waited for his complex chest to settle down. A small clear light that will continue to shine without disappearing for a long time. While I still think of Finn as a family, I feel guilty about entrusting his wishes to him as dragon marquis in this way.

You don't have to apologize.

Nature and bitterness smile. Mac's change is natural. Anyway, by the looks of it, Mac is already a fine grand old man. He became commander-in-chief of the Tenryu Army, had his two daughters daughter-in-law, and noticed that the forties were also the turning point. Experience and depth of thought were added to the facade that discouraged reason and vitality, and the content of the talk became more public than private matters.

Now there's no way I can think of Finn as a human being as a family that hasn't changed since I was twenty. Nellis, who is determined to change, and some are spared the change. Because they are human.

Finn breathed one slowly and nodded.

"Okay, I promise. Let's try not to cry."

"Brother..."

Mac looked frigid as soon as he could. Finn glances up at the white winter sky as he blurts and disguises himself as a true face and the incense smoke fades away and disappears. Words spilled unintentionally pompous.

"Don't worry, I'll always be in Nanais."

So no more mourning and grief for you, Father. Nor do I hesitate to relieve the pain of my memories with light. I will not forget that it was your family, but I will live as a dragon marquis to protect everyone who inherits your trail.

(Excuse me, uncle)

Calling it that for the first time in decades, I felt like the old, much younger Oandus laughed bitterly somewhere.

- You're a helpless guy, Phineas. But I asked for it.

Finn wandered small, as if he had been slapped in the back by an invisible hand.

The incense burns out and the wind blows the last smoke. Finn, with the same serenity as usual, turned around and urged.

"Shall we go home"

To a short word, spread the grin like Mac appeased. That reminded him of the shadow he once had, and Finn accidentally reached out to his opponent's head. He looks at me like a prick and hurries to put his hands together on his back.

Mac shook his head with a sigh of hearsay, but shortly afterwards, he kicked Finn's foot from the side when he was impatient and quickly escaped. I don't think it's what adults do after forty. Finn pounded for a moment, but immediately said, "Wait!" I ran away when I yelled.

Long before the streets, Mac, ahead of Lena, protests in a daunting gesture. Finn caught up with a laugh and, for the first time in a long time, headed back to town with his brother.

(Final)