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Kratos stood at the tree, gazing at the golden handprint on the tree. He kneeled down and tenderly brushed his hand against it, as if it were a loved one. He held his hand against the tree, and laid his head against it. He gave a loud sniff, before straightening up, and started swinging The Leviathan Axe. Again and again the Axe dug it's way into the tree. Deeper and deeper the cut was. Until finally he let loose a yell of pain and frustration, and cut the tree down in one fell swoop. The tree took a full ten seconds to fall, and when it hit the ground, it shook. As Kratos reached down to pick the tree up, the bandage on his left arm came loose and unwinded a little. He brought his arm up and gazed at it, and started wrapping his bandages again.
His son, Atreus, came up behind him, holding a plant of some sorts.
"Found some." He said, holding it up. Atreus moved so he could see what his father was doing with his arm, but Kratos moved with him. Kratos stopped wrapping his bandage and said to his son,
"Get in the boat, boy." Atreus obeyed his father and went to the boat. Kratos finished with his bandage and picked up the tree like it weighed nothing. He brought it to the boat, and Atreus said when he got there,
"Still want me to tie it to the boat?" Kratos didn't answer, but instead kept going to the boat. Atreus hopped in, and Kratos laid the trunk on the man made boat dock. He held his hand out to Atreus, and said,
"Boy." Atreus tossed him a tow cable/hook and Kratos jabbed it into the tree. He then pushed it into the water, where it, obviously, floated. Kratos then turned to his son and said,
"That is enough." Atreus turned around and sat in the boat. Kratos sat down as well, and grabbed the oar, and pushed off from the dock.
"Father?"
"What?"
"Has the something changed? The forest feels...different now."
"Everything has changed, boy. Try not to dwell on it."
"Yes, sir."
After the first banter of the journey, Kratos and Atreus made it to another dock after a brief intermission. Atreus hopped out, followed by his father. Kratos untied the rope, pulled the trunk onshore, and yanked the hook out. He lifted the trunk onto his shoulder, and carried it again. He walked up a semi-steep hill to his house. Once there, they were greeted solemnly by Kratos' brother Deimos. Deimos wore a similar outfit to his brother, but wore a long sleeved shirt, and he didnt have the Spartan skirt his brother still wore. He walked up to Kratos and said,
"Brother. I truly am sorry." Kratos responded with,
"I know." Kratos brought the tree to a pile of chopped wood, and said,
"That was the last." Deimos nodded, and took Atreus inside and walked to Faye's body, wrapped in a cloth, and Deimos stood beside Atreus as he began a sort of funeral rite as Kratos was outside chopping up the new tree.
As Atreus walked inside, he grabbed a candle and brought it to the other candles. He lit the first three while saying,
"Lo ther' do I see my mother." He lit the next three with,
"Lo ther' do I see my father." He lit the next few with,
"Lo ther' do I see my uncle. Lo ther' do they call to me." Atreus laid his head on Faye's body and said,
"Lo ther' do they call to me. Lo ther' do they call to me. Lo ther' do they call to me. Lo ther' do they call to me."
Atreus looked up, and saw Deimos looking at the door. Kratos was standing at the doorway. He walked inside to Atreus as Deimos picked up Faye, after looking at her, then Kratos. He granted him permission, and Deimos carried her to the wood pile, and said to her body,
"Even though I had only known you for a decade, I wish you find your way home. You are free." Kratos came up behind Deimos, held up a flint rock, took out his Axe, and struck it against the flint several times, and finally he got it lit. The logs caught fire like it had oil on them.
Atreus grabbed Faye's knife from its position on her torso. It was glowing orange with heat, and he dropped it. He looked up at his father and uncle, and said,
"Sorry." Kratos kneeled down, picked up a ball of snow, held it to Atreus' hand, and said,
"Here. Squeeze." Then he ripped off a small portion of his bandage and wrapped it around his son's hand and the snow. Kratos picked up the knife, which was no longer hot, and said,
"This knife. It was hers. Now it is yours. She taught you to hunt?" Atresu looked at the knife and replied,
"What she knew."
"Show me."
"Now?"
"Now." Atreus went inside and retrieved his bow and quiver while Kratos and Deimos stood staring at the fire. Deimos said nothing, but he laid his hand on his brother's shoulder. Kratos acknowledged this with a grunt. Deimos then said to Kratos,
"You take him hunting. I've already done it. I'm not going to miss anything." Then Kratos said,
"I know." Deimos replied with, "He has a lot of potential. Just give him time." His brother grunted. Atreus came back and asked his father,
"What are we hunting?"
"You are hunting deer."
"Which way?"
"In the direction of deer."
Atreus paused before saying, "ok...uh, this way."
