what has sunk may rise, what has risen may sink;

[Trekk]

He isn’t a victorious warrior or an unfinished project or a noble peacemaker or a descendent of the dark god. He doesn’t have an entitlement to a throne (even if his mother were still alive, he would not be able to rule a kingdom of women), he doesn’t have any special abilities that could aide him (there is nothing fancy about a pair of endurance wings or poisonous fangs when you do not wish to kill), he doesn’t have any heroic events of winning to his name (he has not participated in a single physical challenge, only the ones against depression and darkness and suicide). Perhaps the only interesting things about him is that he is the last child of a brutal Jungle queen and that he is hopelessly in love with a spring goddess who also loves two others.

That could be the reason the dark god calls him. They both love from afar; they are both trapped in the harsh world where the heart yearns for another who cannot be reached. That could be the reason he answers the call. The sound of the dark god’s voice in the way he whispers ‘her’ proves everything to the hopeless lover – among all the thousands of mares he has lain with, she has been the one he remembers.

And so he follows the dark god’s voice until he arrives somewhere that is also flocked to by others. He pays little attention to who else is gathered (except to catch spot of his lover’s own child, independently standing tall and announcing his bravery in finding her, as they all will be, and he mentally takes note to watch over her child as if the boy were his own). “Of course.”

trekk.
he fell apart with
his broken heart.