Hunting Monsters

[Keller]

He smiled back to the boy, those green eyes of his softening as he waved back. "Of course, I'll be right here if you want to talk afterwards."

Where was the Father? Was this going to be a question he'd regret asking? He couldn't possibly know the answer to either of those questions if he didn't ask. Resolving his mind to the inevitability that this was going to be something that would burn like fire in his ears. He'd wait until she'd finished putting him to sleep and came back to the living room before asking. "Where's his Dad?"

His mind braced for the answer, old wounds waiting to be opened, a fury he'd never put to bed himself and a past that drove him to his current state of madness. A tempest stirring in motion, a perfect storm giving way to silence before cracking open the skies and letting loose a calamity.

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"Knowing Humanity - We will be duty, bloody and unavoidable."