to the ends of the earth - anyone

[Atl]

You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.

Atl had always been the quieter of the two. Their mother had unknowingly named them well. He was the calm to his brother's rash. He was the steady to the unsteady. The slow to the fast. Atl kept his brother was overstepping his boundaries and Phyre kept Atl from being too entirely dull. He had no doubt that their dad would have been proud of them. They had been told so many stories of their father, first from their mom when they had been so young, nothing but long legs and small bodies, and wide eyes.

Then their older siblings had told them more things, the way he had held them close, encouraged them, kept them safe. And their nephews and niece that had known him to be a great fun granddad. He had allowed them to crawl over his body and created obstacle courses by moving the rocks with high metal counts in them. He had and did do everything possible to keep his family safe.

Until he couldn't. He was old, not quite that old for this place, but with the fights and the constant battles that he had taken, all the hits to his bones and muscles had made him ache.

Perhaps if he had hung around some more and had found a healer, he would have been well. If he would have been strong enough to take the help.

However, Atl had grown up without his father, with only his brother as his constant, for his family were wanderers and took to the horizon. The twins had taken their own times away from beqanna, settling into an adventure style lifestyle.

They had returned for a while and it on a random jaunt through the Meadow that they find the Forest. They are quiet for once, exploring this area that was new to them. And it is while they are looking through this forest they come across her. "Look at her brother." Phyre says to him and Atl smiles as he does look. Her appearance is shocking to their senses after being so long away from this place of magic. But they are not afraid. "Let's go say hi." Atl says, and they move closer. Phyre for once stays behind his brother allowing the smooth, calm talker to talk first.

"Hello lady. How are you today?" His breath escapes in a fog of white as his warm breath meets the cold air.

Atl