Legacies of light

Interlude 2.47: Goodbye part 1

-Break-

Six months later

Location: Scortha fields

With the little baby Jupio tied against him, Charles works the fields in the blazing heat just like everyone else. Many struggle to simply breathe, but Charles perceivers throughout it.

Though the little one tied against him isn't so strong.

Jupio starts to cry, so I look at her and say, "Please bear with it."

But unable to understand my words, she continues to cry. I look up with a face of worry as I know what is about to happen next.

A beastkin walks up to me and kicks me in my shin causing me to kneel, then grabbing my head he smashes my face into the dirt a few times.

After he finishes, he pulls me by my hair towards his face, and says, "You see that is how that baby's constant cries feel to my ears. It isn't nice, is it?"

Coughing, as I try to get air, I say, "No."

"Then make sure I don't hear it anymore, because every bit of pain I feel, so will you."

Jupio starts to cry even louder than before, and due to this, I see the beastki