This is the obvious answer, because oh, the knife is so close, and he knows what Howard sounds like when he screams and it's beautiful like a summer day, warm like a blanket. Killing him means that he gets the knife, and Aunamee is very good with knives. It's been far too long since he killed, and with the knife, Aunamee knows he can kill very many people. He knows he can make the others fear him. He knows he can win.
Leave him.
This is the easy answer, the cowardly answer. This is the kind of thing that a normal person would do, someone who bleeds out their mortality and dies in the empty space between the stars. This is not an option.
Keep him.
As soon as the thoughts crackles in his head, he knows that this is the one. This is right. (Have his abilities returned?) He pries the knife out of Howard's hand and takes it in his own, slinging the boy over his shoulder.
He runs with him, his back slouched under the high grass.
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Kill him.
This is the obvious answer, because oh, the knife is so close, and he knows what Howard sounds like when he screams and it's beautiful like a summer day, warm like a blanket. Killing him means that he gets the knife, and Aunamee is very good with knives. It's been far too long since he killed, and with the knife, Aunamee knows he can kill very many people. He knows he can make the others fear him. He knows he can win.
Leave him.
This is the easy answer, the cowardly answer. This is the kind of thing that a normal person would do, someone who bleeds out their mortality and dies in the empty space between the stars. This is not an option.
Keep him.
As soon as the thoughts crackles in his head, he knows that this is the one. This is right. (Have his abilities returned?) He pries the knife out of Howard's hand and takes it in his own, slinging the boy over his shoulder.
He runs with him, his back slouched under the high grass.