Post by Mythri on Jul 24, 2009 23:28:20 GMT -5
Cast:
Cael, adolescent male cougar
Kein, adult male cougar
Scene:
Time. The only sense of time that Cael registered was the steady setting of the sun, and as it evened out with his prone figure and stared back at him with that fiery, intense red and orange. The adolescent had fled quickly to the highest point on the mountain that he could reach, away from the forest and away from /her/. The southwestern mountain cliffs are where he finds himself, nestled... snugged... almost shoved, really, underneath an overhang. On his side, his forepaws hang over the edge of the sharp stone, his backend laid out lazily in the other direction. Cael rests his head on the warm rock, blue eyes alive with the fire of the sun as he stares off into the horizon. It's unlikely that any creature would find him here, unless they knew just where to look, and even if he was found it's quite a jump or, or down to get to him, and his body is taking up the ledge in its entirety. Lucid, sane, and without the female's influence... there are tears in the boy's eyes.
The trail Cael left between Mythri and himself did not lead Kein to Nium or Qale, but hopefully Mythri will be okay until Kein can find one of them. Neither has the trip given Kein any real answers as to how to deal with the boy. Regardless, he can't leave the situation alone. What he imagines Cael did... If any other male did that to any female in Amaranth, Kein would tear him to shreds, or die trying. He can't kill his son... But /something/ will have to be done, and Kein is afraid that it will take expelling Cael from his home. How could he possibly justify keeping his son here, after this? He follows Cael's scent almost-blindly, focusing his sight only enough that he doesn't risk falling and hurting himself.
Thinking on other things, thinking on the attack rather than the aftermath, Cael's anger began to boil. Regardless of /who/ attacked her, Amaranth cougar or no, it was Kein's ultimatum that Mythri harm no one within his borders. She had said the cougar was not of Amaranth, but would she still have refused or been unable to defend herself from such an attack on her person? /Why/ would she. Revan's scent was not familiar enough to Cael for him to know that it was the girl's father, and for all he knows some new threat could be stalking through his home. It causes the young male's maw to part in a viscious snarl, thick tail slapping against the stones and a dull, echoing thud bounces down the mountainside. It's all Kein's fault. At least, her outward wounds are. Staring at the sun, tears standing in his eyes beind held in place by his anger, Cael doesn't see his father below.
Kein has thought of his warning too, and has regretted it. Of course Mythri wouldn't want to attack his son, but Kein would have /much/ preferred that she fight him than that she allow... that... to be done to her. If there is one thing that Kein will /never/ allow to happen, it is for any female to be raped, or even just verbally pressured into intimacy. That his son may have done something like that... If his son did... The thud cuts through his thoughts, forcing him to focus on his surroundings. Not quite realizing exactly how near his son he is, as he cannot see the boy, he calls out, "Cael! We need to talk, son. Now." Kein is quite obviously angry, and he makes no effort to hide it.
His eyes close against the brightness, squinting at the grand orb as it just brushes the horizon, and Cael tries almost desperately to surpress the anger that continues to build in her chest. He doesn't /want/ to be angry with Kein. If anything he'll punish himself for what he /did/ do, but the anger directed toward his father, something beginning to border on hatred, is something that he just cannot stand. His name. The anger with which it is said. The noise causes the male to echo the anger with yet another growl, and lazily does he push himself up until his head his leaning back on the rocks. Other than that, he does not move save for his eyes as they scan the mountain to find his father. With the echo Kein is difficult to pinpoint. A myriad of things come to mind, spiteful things for Cael to shout at his father, but he says none of them. Only: "It was your fault."
Would Nayeli say the same thing? She probably would. It was Kein's fault. No matter how uncomfortable the conversation made both him and Cael, he should have continued it, but, dammit, he did /not/ think his son would do something like that. Though he still hasn't spotted Cael, Kein calls out, roughly in the direction he thinks the response came from, "How is it my fault?" Oh, he knows, but he wants to hear Cael say it. He /needs/ to hear Cael say it. There is still plenty of anger in his tone, but it's mixed with regret now. Will Nayeli ever forgive him for this most recent failure in his long line of parenting failures? Will Mythri? And Cael... He's going to lose Cael for good, now, and that knowledge eats at him as much as everything else.
It takes so much effort for the boy to keep his claws withdrawn, to keep his temper down to just below boiling; he'd like nothing more than to attack the very rocks he's surrounded himself with the vent that frustration with Kein, with himself, with /everything/. Silence surrounds the mountain as Kein's last words fade off, and very slowly does the boy shuffle his paws underneath him and stand out on the small ledge, eyes cast down and searching intently for his father. Ah, there. He directs narrowed eyes, squared muzzle, and a grim determination toward the older male, and the effort of keeping that rage in releases in the form of a loud scoff. "She'd have defended herself if you'd let her. Not to attack anyone while she's here. Don't you think that's why she's as injured as she is? By obeying your /rules/ she was hurt on /your/ lands." Taillash.
Kein actually cringes at the verbal attack. He doesn't turn his gaze from his son once he spots Cael, though, and his anger fades. "I can't believe you think that justifies what you did. I thought you had more honor than that, Cael." Cael would not be the first child to become angry when confronted about doing something wrong, and so Kein still does not realize that he has the wrong idea entirely about what happened, that Cael did not /do/ anything...
"Wh-- what /I/ did?" Cael nearly balks, staring with astonishment at his father and the accusation thrown at him nearly knocks him off the mountain. "/You/ caused this!" he growls back, unable to stop his anger from rising even as Kein's posture grows hurt from the confrontation. Cael takes a moment to look around wildly for the quickest way down, and with a few less than graceful, rock flinging bounds he is on more level terms with his father... so to speak. The son does not approach, keeping a wide distance between them and his anger is more than willing to fill that gap. "I /found/ her like that. I /cleaned/ the gashes in her skin." However much Mythri protested, silently or otherwise, he did it. But Cael doesn't divulge further, so intent on the idea of the attack that his other indiscretion falls away. For now. "I /scoured/ the place looking for the filth that would go after her." Neck fur bristles, Cael's muscles quivering with anger that he tries desperately to control.
Kein tenses as his son rushes down. If he could be so wrong about his son, if Cael could do what Kein thinks he did to Mythri, what would stop Cael from attacking Kein? What would stop Cael from forcing Kein to deal with him violently? Thankfully, the boy /does/ stop advancing... And then Cael begins speaking again, and Kein's anger fades, replaced immediately by confusion. If Cael isn't the one who did that to her... Why would Mythri have asked him not to hurt Cael... Or, more accurately, not to hurt 'him', unless... "Her father did that to her." He is most definitely not talking to Cael now, though his voice is loud enough to be heard. Why didn't he see it before? Why was he so quick to believe his son could attack a female like that? Well, obviously, because of what happened to Ashen, and because he was on his way to give out his own punishment, but that doesn't lessen his guilt at all, now that he realizes he was wrong. "Cael..." Kein's eyes slowly focus on his son again, but he has no idea what to say, now.
Cael's breath chuffs in and out rapidly, as if he just ran across the mountain itself, and the complete and total /rage/ directed at Kein for thinking such a thing is so powerful and unimaginable to the boy that he can no longer control it. And his father's realization causes him to suck in a sharp breath through his teeth, staring in disbelief at the revelation that was shared with him. Frantic, Cael looks around for the quickest escape route down the mountain, but Kein is standing in that path and the young cougar lets go of a primal growl backed by an anger that he has never know. "I'll /kill/ him," he spits, trying again to find an easy route down the rocks. But he can't find one without going by Kein, and in his anger Cael bounds over a precarious jumble of stones and runs recklessly down. Rocks tumble past him, a few ping sharply against his skin, and at one point he slows to a stop in panic. The route down is becoming more dangerous, but he doesn't care. "I'll /kill/ him." Cael nearly screams, frantically searching for the way down. He's lost. Lost on his own mountain.
"Cael. Cael!" His son's movement is so fast that Kein doesn't have even the slightest chance of stopping the boy. That doesn't stop him from making his way after the boy as quickly as he can, though. He had no idea his statement would cause Cael to respond like that, and even if he did... There's no telling whether he would have been able to stop himself from saying it, since it wasn't an intentional statement, by a long shot. He probably /should/ have known. Cael's reaction is very similar to when Nayeli came back injured... And it terrifies Kein every bit as much now as it did then. "Stop!"
If he could laugh, he would laugh outright at the absurdity of Kein's demand. Stop? Stop? Why would he, why should he?! But Cael's can't laugh. Not now. His earlier frustration, his subsequent disappointment and anger at himself, and now this. The adolescent is a flurry of emotion as he again tries to make a made dash across the trecherous landscape, little care for his own saftey or for the saftey of his father behind him. But again he's forced to stop, but in his haste he tumbles, paws tangling among the stones and he falls with a sickening thud on his chest and stomach and it pushes all the air from his lungs. Blackness crawls across his sight, just like... just like that time, and he struggles to right himself, msucles quivering. He groans through the haze, "I'll kill him, I'll kill him, I'll kill him. He won't hurt her again. He won't hurt her again. He won't hurt anyone again!" His voice struggles and shrieks louder and louder as he fights through the inky black.
The slope is increasingly difficult to navigate as Kein goes after his son. Thankfully, he manages to keep his footing where Cael failed, and Cael's fall allows Kein to catch up to the boy. "That's enough!" Kein knows the anger that Cael is feeling. He probably knows it better than Cael will ever realize. Kein wears the scars, physical and emotional, from confronting a cougar in a situation very similar to Cael's. "You can't attack him by yourself and hope to walk away. /I/ couldn't attack him by myself and hope to walk away. If we work together, though, and don't let anger get the better of us..." Will he respect Mythri's request not to hurt Revan? Absolutely not.
The black fades away to snow, then tiny colored spots flashing at him. His ears are ringing, but even through that Kein's voice strikes him and he snaps his wide-eyed attention to the other cougar. Cael picks up a paw and rubs a scraped, raw chin, grimacing and shaking his head to try and get rid of that ringing. He looks a little crazed, his breath still intense, rapid, but at least he's not suicidally flinging himself down the mountain anymore. He tries to take a deep, calming breath, but it rushes from his chest in a frustrated wail. He shakes his head. Don't say it. He closes his eyes. Don't say it. He squeezes out tears from his eyes. "Dad, I think I love her." He said it.
Kein didn't want to hear that. Mythri is just naturally trouble. Kein suspects she'll always be trouble. He already suspected it, though. And he knows what stupid things males do for females they're attracted to. "Then be smart. Grow up into a cougar who can provide for her, can keep her safe. Getting yourself killed because of her will achieve nothing." He'll support his children. He has to. He'll try to guide them through whatever life throws at them. "When you... When you found her, did you and she... You didn't do anything, did you, son?" Well, of course Cael did /something/, but hopefully the reluctance in Kein's tone will tell Cael what specific 'anything' Kein is talking about.
At first, Cael's posture straightens and the wild, crazed look on his face slowly subsides and tones down into something more serious. His uneasy breathing steadies after a time, and if cougars used tissues he would've torn through them by now. But Kein's question elicits an uneasy response from the boy, and though he remains stationary he seems to shrink away from his father. "She." Wait, no. "I." Cael shakes his head. "I want something from her very much." True. "I don't really understand. There's something different about her." Also true. "I told her that. She said no. So I left." Quite true. His exploration of her... fur... though, is left out. Quite on purpose. His ears seem to pale as he looks away, remembering again how he felt in the forest then. He /really/ doesn't get it.
Kein relaxes considerably. They still have time. If he can keep the boy away from her for a little while, they have a month or so, at least. "If I promise to explain some things to you, can you promise me that you'll avoid her for the next couple days? Give her time to recover from what happened to her?" He can't allow his son and Mythri to mate while they are in Amaranth. Kein is not old, not by any means, but he is starting to get older, and he is only holding this territory in trust for one of his children. One of his /daughters/.
There is both great joy and great sadness in his heart all at once at Kein's request. Staying away from Mythri will be difficult, painful, and she will likely be the only thing on his mind for those days, weeks? But it /will/ give her that time... time to think about... about what he did. It sinks his spirits. However much he thinks he loves her, she'll likely despise him for the rest of enternity. Regardless, his spine stiffens and he nods. He'll try. He knows he'll have to leave this mountain behind one day, and he might have to leave her behind, too. He wants to apologize, but... maybe he can do it better when she's... less... interesting.
Good. "Come with me, then. We have to find Sweet Rain, and talk." He isn't going to make Cael wait for the answers to the questions he must have... And maybe, once Cael knows the consequences of spending too much time around Mythri, right now, it will help him to stay away for a couple days. Time enough for Mythri to get over her season and begin recovering, with Nium's aid. Kein makes his way just a couple steps further down the mountain, to give his son space to collect himself and prepare to follow. Then, along their journey, he'll answer any specific questions Cael might have, as well as say all the things he already has in mind to say.
Continued in next scene...
Cael, adolescent male cougar
Kein, adult male cougar
Scene:
Time. The only sense of time that Cael registered was the steady setting of the sun, and as it evened out with his prone figure and stared back at him with that fiery, intense red and orange. The adolescent had fled quickly to the highest point on the mountain that he could reach, away from the forest and away from /her/. The southwestern mountain cliffs are where he finds himself, nestled... snugged... almost shoved, really, underneath an overhang. On his side, his forepaws hang over the edge of the sharp stone, his backend laid out lazily in the other direction. Cael rests his head on the warm rock, blue eyes alive with the fire of the sun as he stares off into the horizon. It's unlikely that any creature would find him here, unless they knew just where to look, and even if he was found it's quite a jump or, or down to get to him, and his body is taking up the ledge in its entirety. Lucid, sane, and without the female's influence... there are tears in the boy's eyes.
The trail Cael left between Mythri and himself did not lead Kein to Nium or Qale, but hopefully Mythri will be okay until Kein can find one of them. Neither has the trip given Kein any real answers as to how to deal with the boy. Regardless, he can't leave the situation alone. What he imagines Cael did... If any other male did that to any female in Amaranth, Kein would tear him to shreds, or die trying. He can't kill his son... But /something/ will have to be done, and Kein is afraid that it will take expelling Cael from his home. How could he possibly justify keeping his son here, after this? He follows Cael's scent almost-blindly, focusing his sight only enough that he doesn't risk falling and hurting himself.
Thinking on other things, thinking on the attack rather than the aftermath, Cael's anger began to boil. Regardless of /who/ attacked her, Amaranth cougar or no, it was Kein's ultimatum that Mythri harm no one within his borders. She had said the cougar was not of Amaranth, but would she still have refused or been unable to defend herself from such an attack on her person? /Why/ would she. Revan's scent was not familiar enough to Cael for him to know that it was the girl's father, and for all he knows some new threat could be stalking through his home. It causes the young male's maw to part in a viscious snarl, thick tail slapping against the stones and a dull, echoing thud bounces down the mountainside. It's all Kein's fault. At least, her outward wounds are. Staring at the sun, tears standing in his eyes beind held in place by his anger, Cael doesn't see his father below.
Kein has thought of his warning too, and has regretted it. Of course Mythri wouldn't want to attack his son, but Kein would have /much/ preferred that she fight him than that she allow... that... to be done to her. If there is one thing that Kein will /never/ allow to happen, it is for any female to be raped, or even just verbally pressured into intimacy. That his son may have done something like that... If his son did... The thud cuts through his thoughts, forcing him to focus on his surroundings. Not quite realizing exactly how near his son he is, as he cannot see the boy, he calls out, "Cael! We need to talk, son. Now." Kein is quite obviously angry, and he makes no effort to hide it.
His eyes close against the brightness, squinting at the grand orb as it just brushes the horizon, and Cael tries almost desperately to surpress the anger that continues to build in her chest. He doesn't /want/ to be angry with Kein. If anything he'll punish himself for what he /did/ do, but the anger directed toward his father, something beginning to border on hatred, is something that he just cannot stand. His name. The anger with which it is said. The noise causes the male to echo the anger with yet another growl, and lazily does he push himself up until his head his leaning back on the rocks. Other than that, he does not move save for his eyes as they scan the mountain to find his father. With the echo Kein is difficult to pinpoint. A myriad of things come to mind, spiteful things for Cael to shout at his father, but he says none of them. Only: "It was your fault."
Would Nayeli say the same thing? She probably would. It was Kein's fault. No matter how uncomfortable the conversation made both him and Cael, he should have continued it, but, dammit, he did /not/ think his son would do something like that. Though he still hasn't spotted Cael, Kein calls out, roughly in the direction he thinks the response came from, "How is it my fault?" Oh, he knows, but he wants to hear Cael say it. He /needs/ to hear Cael say it. There is still plenty of anger in his tone, but it's mixed with regret now. Will Nayeli ever forgive him for this most recent failure in his long line of parenting failures? Will Mythri? And Cael... He's going to lose Cael for good, now, and that knowledge eats at him as much as everything else.
It takes so much effort for the boy to keep his claws withdrawn, to keep his temper down to just below boiling; he'd like nothing more than to attack the very rocks he's surrounded himself with the vent that frustration with Kein, with himself, with /everything/. Silence surrounds the mountain as Kein's last words fade off, and very slowly does the boy shuffle his paws underneath him and stand out on the small ledge, eyes cast down and searching intently for his father. Ah, there. He directs narrowed eyes, squared muzzle, and a grim determination toward the older male, and the effort of keeping that rage in releases in the form of a loud scoff. "She'd have defended herself if you'd let her. Not to attack anyone while she's here. Don't you think that's why she's as injured as she is? By obeying your /rules/ she was hurt on /your/ lands." Taillash.
Kein actually cringes at the verbal attack. He doesn't turn his gaze from his son once he spots Cael, though, and his anger fades. "I can't believe you think that justifies what you did. I thought you had more honor than that, Cael." Cael would not be the first child to become angry when confronted about doing something wrong, and so Kein still does not realize that he has the wrong idea entirely about what happened, that Cael did not /do/ anything...
"Wh-- what /I/ did?" Cael nearly balks, staring with astonishment at his father and the accusation thrown at him nearly knocks him off the mountain. "/You/ caused this!" he growls back, unable to stop his anger from rising even as Kein's posture grows hurt from the confrontation. Cael takes a moment to look around wildly for the quickest way down, and with a few less than graceful, rock flinging bounds he is on more level terms with his father... so to speak. The son does not approach, keeping a wide distance between them and his anger is more than willing to fill that gap. "I /found/ her like that. I /cleaned/ the gashes in her skin." However much Mythri protested, silently or otherwise, he did it. But Cael doesn't divulge further, so intent on the idea of the attack that his other indiscretion falls away. For now. "I /scoured/ the place looking for the filth that would go after her." Neck fur bristles, Cael's muscles quivering with anger that he tries desperately to control.
Kein tenses as his son rushes down. If he could be so wrong about his son, if Cael could do what Kein thinks he did to Mythri, what would stop Cael from attacking Kein? What would stop Cael from forcing Kein to deal with him violently? Thankfully, the boy /does/ stop advancing... And then Cael begins speaking again, and Kein's anger fades, replaced immediately by confusion. If Cael isn't the one who did that to her... Why would Mythri have asked him not to hurt Cael... Or, more accurately, not to hurt 'him', unless... "Her father did that to her." He is most definitely not talking to Cael now, though his voice is loud enough to be heard. Why didn't he see it before? Why was he so quick to believe his son could attack a female like that? Well, obviously, because of what happened to Ashen, and because he was on his way to give out his own punishment, but that doesn't lessen his guilt at all, now that he realizes he was wrong. "Cael..." Kein's eyes slowly focus on his son again, but he has no idea what to say, now.
Cael's breath chuffs in and out rapidly, as if he just ran across the mountain itself, and the complete and total /rage/ directed at Kein for thinking such a thing is so powerful and unimaginable to the boy that he can no longer control it. And his father's realization causes him to suck in a sharp breath through his teeth, staring in disbelief at the revelation that was shared with him. Frantic, Cael looks around for the quickest escape route down the mountain, but Kein is standing in that path and the young cougar lets go of a primal growl backed by an anger that he has never know. "I'll /kill/ him," he spits, trying again to find an easy route down the rocks. But he can't find one without going by Kein, and in his anger Cael bounds over a precarious jumble of stones and runs recklessly down. Rocks tumble past him, a few ping sharply against his skin, and at one point he slows to a stop in panic. The route down is becoming more dangerous, but he doesn't care. "I'll /kill/ him." Cael nearly screams, frantically searching for the way down. He's lost. Lost on his own mountain.
"Cael. Cael!" His son's movement is so fast that Kein doesn't have even the slightest chance of stopping the boy. That doesn't stop him from making his way after the boy as quickly as he can, though. He had no idea his statement would cause Cael to respond like that, and even if he did... There's no telling whether he would have been able to stop himself from saying it, since it wasn't an intentional statement, by a long shot. He probably /should/ have known. Cael's reaction is very similar to when Nayeli came back injured... And it terrifies Kein every bit as much now as it did then. "Stop!"
If he could laugh, he would laugh outright at the absurdity of Kein's demand. Stop? Stop? Why would he, why should he?! But Cael's can't laugh. Not now. His earlier frustration, his subsequent disappointment and anger at himself, and now this. The adolescent is a flurry of emotion as he again tries to make a made dash across the trecherous landscape, little care for his own saftey or for the saftey of his father behind him. But again he's forced to stop, but in his haste he tumbles, paws tangling among the stones and he falls with a sickening thud on his chest and stomach and it pushes all the air from his lungs. Blackness crawls across his sight, just like... just like that time, and he struggles to right himself, msucles quivering. He groans through the haze, "I'll kill him, I'll kill him, I'll kill him. He won't hurt her again. He won't hurt her again. He won't hurt anyone again!" His voice struggles and shrieks louder and louder as he fights through the inky black.
The slope is increasingly difficult to navigate as Kein goes after his son. Thankfully, he manages to keep his footing where Cael failed, and Cael's fall allows Kein to catch up to the boy. "That's enough!" Kein knows the anger that Cael is feeling. He probably knows it better than Cael will ever realize. Kein wears the scars, physical and emotional, from confronting a cougar in a situation very similar to Cael's. "You can't attack him by yourself and hope to walk away. /I/ couldn't attack him by myself and hope to walk away. If we work together, though, and don't let anger get the better of us..." Will he respect Mythri's request not to hurt Revan? Absolutely not.
The black fades away to snow, then tiny colored spots flashing at him. His ears are ringing, but even through that Kein's voice strikes him and he snaps his wide-eyed attention to the other cougar. Cael picks up a paw and rubs a scraped, raw chin, grimacing and shaking his head to try and get rid of that ringing. He looks a little crazed, his breath still intense, rapid, but at least he's not suicidally flinging himself down the mountain anymore. He tries to take a deep, calming breath, but it rushes from his chest in a frustrated wail. He shakes his head. Don't say it. He closes his eyes. Don't say it. He squeezes out tears from his eyes. "Dad, I think I love her." He said it.
Kein didn't want to hear that. Mythri is just naturally trouble. Kein suspects she'll always be trouble. He already suspected it, though. And he knows what stupid things males do for females they're attracted to. "Then be smart. Grow up into a cougar who can provide for her, can keep her safe. Getting yourself killed because of her will achieve nothing." He'll support his children. He has to. He'll try to guide them through whatever life throws at them. "When you... When you found her, did you and she... You didn't do anything, did you, son?" Well, of course Cael did /something/, but hopefully the reluctance in Kein's tone will tell Cael what specific 'anything' Kein is talking about.
At first, Cael's posture straightens and the wild, crazed look on his face slowly subsides and tones down into something more serious. His uneasy breathing steadies after a time, and if cougars used tissues he would've torn through them by now. But Kein's question elicits an uneasy response from the boy, and though he remains stationary he seems to shrink away from his father. "She." Wait, no. "I." Cael shakes his head. "I want something from her very much." True. "I don't really understand. There's something different about her." Also true. "I told her that. She said no. So I left." Quite true. His exploration of her... fur... though, is left out. Quite on purpose. His ears seem to pale as he looks away, remembering again how he felt in the forest then. He /really/ doesn't get it.
Kein relaxes considerably. They still have time. If he can keep the boy away from her for a little while, they have a month or so, at least. "If I promise to explain some things to you, can you promise me that you'll avoid her for the next couple days? Give her time to recover from what happened to her?" He can't allow his son and Mythri to mate while they are in Amaranth. Kein is not old, not by any means, but he is starting to get older, and he is only holding this territory in trust for one of his children. One of his /daughters/.
There is both great joy and great sadness in his heart all at once at Kein's request. Staying away from Mythri will be difficult, painful, and she will likely be the only thing on his mind for those days, weeks? But it /will/ give her that time... time to think about... about what he did. It sinks his spirits. However much he thinks he loves her, she'll likely despise him for the rest of enternity. Regardless, his spine stiffens and he nods. He'll try. He knows he'll have to leave this mountain behind one day, and he might have to leave her behind, too. He wants to apologize, but... maybe he can do it better when she's... less... interesting.
Good. "Come with me, then. We have to find Sweet Rain, and talk." He isn't going to make Cael wait for the answers to the questions he must have... And maybe, once Cael knows the consequences of spending too much time around Mythri, right now, it will help him to stay away for a couple days. Time enough for Mythri to get over her season and begin recovering, with Nium's aid. Kein makes his way just a couple steps further down the mountain, to give his son space to collect himself and prepare to follow. Then, along their journey, he'll answer any specific questions Cael might have, as well as say all the things he already has in mind to say.
Continued in next scene...