Pruning the Branches
Chapter 2 is up on AO3!
The tension was cut, slightly, once all of the siblings they had left were rounded up in Misery‘s Lair and they no longer had to worry about losing anyone else.
Dokkaibi and Flynn had checked on everyone, well, gotten visual on everyone at least, so they were able to figure out who all had been lost without having to ask. They didn’t want to open any more wounds than they had to. Not when they were still so freshly cut.
It was a devastating realization. Flynn had assumed they’d mostly been younger, less experienced siblings. And some had—but at least two of them were older. One of the lost, Distro-giest, had even been Enlightened.
Whoever it was that was hunting them down must have been powerful . Flynn hadn’t thought anyone short of the Ancients could hurt someone like him.
…short of the Ancients.