The King's Weep I

Chapter XXI

The noise from the people made Kahl feel a sort of sickness form in his stomach, for they were glad the snow had stopped.

They did not know the meaning of what the snow stopping signaled. Kahl could not catch his breath as the various arrangements of flowers flew past his hunched back, still locked in a state of sadness and shock. Kahl had betrayed his own brother, for the sake of his people and kingdom.

"Why did you do it?" A female voice provoked Kahl, and it held a string of taunt, but curiosity.

   Kahl raised himself from deep spirits, and gazed up at the women, Cathryn. "What are you doing out in the cold? Will you not die?"

   Cathryn smiled, and gestured for Kahl to stand up. "King Kahl, the snow has stopped, I do not live in fear of a cold streak hitting us hard, since Dragomir has been banished from Earth," Cathryn stated, and Kahl widened his eyes at the extensive knowledge.

   "How did you know my brother was back?" Kahl asked, and Cathryn began to walk down the cobbled path, which had been marked with ash and blood.

   "A presence, I cannot remember the time, shifted the balance of Good and Evil, Heaven and Hell. Those shifts do not cross under my nose, and I knew the first day the Evil had risen from below, he was coming for you," the exquisite lady told the young brother.

   Kahl had stared at her, "what do you mean evil?"

   Cathryn bubbled a laughter, "do not play a game with me at such a time taking spot. I know you sent your brother back to Hell with the dagger on purpose, Kahl. You know how evil your brother is, and you knew what he wanted when he came up here."

   Kahl felt his insides churn with anger, but also acceptance of his brother. It was true, King Kahl had felt the presence of Evil skittering through the lands hundreds of years ago, but he could not pin-point who, or what it was. He had left it, and when he found his brother in The Land of Magic and Inferior, Kahl had known all the unprocessed feelings, was Dragomir's doing.

   "Kahl, Dragomir was, and still is, evil. You know exactly that the snow represented the Evil churning and brewing inside that mans body. Now that he has been sent back, after years, he will come again, and not for anyone else, but you and you entirely," Cathryn stated. Her gazing purple eyes stared at Kahl with trust, but Cathryn had felt a deep sense that Kahl would turn the back of Love on Friendship.

   "I tricked him into falling into my wide arms, just to rip his heart out, and plunge the dagger deep within him," Kahl aired. "How can dear Dragomir be considered a monster, but I am just the same as he?"

   Cathryn kept the gaze on him, until she broke away. "You do not know of the things he has done in secret, Kahl," she muttered. Then, as the pink leaves took shape upon the floor, Cathryn bounded away within the crowds of souls.

The air that had surrounded Kahl began the melt of a new age, and a new time. The sun shone so brightly, for it felt the tightness it was consumed in for hundreds of years had left it dusty and old. Peoples mutters and animals howls filled Kahl and his soul, with a purpose of maintaining the land he had always protected.

Though, the first death of Kahl's brother still haunted him, and the second passing of the spirit felt enough to give him nightmares, Kahl smiled into the sky.

The presence of Evil had vanished, and the air felt lighter and warmer.

Kahl had known his brother did not want to be the thing the deep pits turned him into, but Dragomir had no choice as to accept his job and relinquish the feeling of safety in the Lands that the people and nobles held dearly.

Kahl knew his evil brother would soon be back, though his banishment had be announced upon his skin. With a love so bright, between the two brothers, it pushed down the Evil and it's bidding, and brought a feeling they both had wanted to consume for days.

And, Kahl waited as the sun shone upon the broken, yet healing land. The man waited for when his dear, older brother would return to drink up the flame he had not blown out before he left.

But, King Kahl knew the land would not have the sun shining on it for such a long period, for there was still a night, and a monster lurking underneath the shadows of all.

   Just by a name knew only in Myths of the new; King Dragomir of Hell.

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