As a dragon, I find this romantic as fuck AADIFTRAF

Say 'Bye Mommy!'

Khanir ran his bony fingers through his sons sea of snow white hair. He was leaning into Tias gravestone with their kits laying in the flowers by them. Summer breeze carried the smell of acacia, the sound of birds and the coldness of night. His amber eyes felt heavy, he has his hands full with these rascals.

The war to erradicate his kind is still raging. He can protect his sons, but he can't protect his land. It's a lost cause. He reached up to feel his eyepatch, it still hurts just like the day he lost it.

A bee circled him, he held a hand out to let it rest. It landed on his knuckles.

He looked at it with apathy, whispering an apology. "I'm sorry. I have failed you."

The bee didn't react. It walked around his pale fingers, stumbling over coarse silver hairs.

A soft grunt came from Valkyon. Theres another bee on his little face, tickling him.

He stirred in his sleep and opened his amber eyes just crack.

"Son. Don't panic." To that he immediately became nerveous. He sat up, trying to find what threat he was supposed to not worry about and froze into a statue when he felt the fearsome monster crawl behind his ear.

He screamed, clawing at his hair as the beast stung him. He jumped up, stepped on his brother and then fell back down with in his barely awake grogginess. After a brief minute of pure mayhem and ear piercing toddler crying Khanir managed to get a hold of Valkyon and sat him down.

"Told you not to panic, son."

"Hmmm." A humm. Thats all he ever did, hummed. He rarely tried to speak.

"She stung you?" He thought about it and nodded. He has a hard time with any form of communication, even nonverbal. "Too bad, lemm' see."

He showed the painful spot on his neck, Khanir took his silver pendant off and blew fire to the back of it.

"It's going to hurt a little more, but I promise it will make it go away faster." He pressed the hot metal to the sting. It did hurt, father spoke true. He repeated the procesws a few times, making sure the metal wasn't burning his skin. "Now, does it feel better?"

A nod. Good.

Khanir sighed, looking at the flowers closing and the birds retreating. "It's getting late, we should head home." Valkyon jumped to his feet immediately as he said it. Lance was quick to fall back asleep after he got stepped on, face pressed into Khanirs cloak on the ground.

He picked the kit up and looked at the gravestone one last time.

"Say, 'bye Mommy!'"

Valkyon didn't say it, he just waved. Tia wouldn't mind for sure. If anyone knew her sons, it was her.

...

"Do you remember your...."

"No, but Lance is obsessed with her. Don't mention her, he'll lose it." Valkyon stood in front of the grave, he never visits without his brother.

"You don't feel the same?"

"We are not the same."

"And, if your father is dead why isn't he buried next to her?"

"They weren't together because they loved each other that much. They just made a mistake together and.... I just don't think they would want to spend eternity together when they didn't even want to have kits with each other."

"Doesn't it make you feel bad?"

"A little bit. Let's go, there's more memories."

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