Desreal: CHOKE & CORRIGAN [ OCEANTREE TOO? ]

It is Cheveyo who walks into the two conversing, not acknowledging the bleeding boy—who had done this? Why had they done it? And then he sees the blood on Choke’s lips, his old memory—he had loved this man, and in return the old man hurt the boy he had replaced him with?

“ Choke.. ” Cheveyo’s words are husky, and he does not ignore Oceantree but she is worth almost nothing now—she hates him, so he leaves her alone, she would not be any help. “ Why? ” Cheveyo can not hear Choke’s thoughts, can not read Oceantree’s mind, can not fathom what Corrigan could have done to deserve this—he had tried to find Corrigan, and Choke had hid them well, well enough away that Cheveyo’s love for him could not bring them out of the darkness.

“ I loved you.. and you hurt.. ” the other half of my soul.. He finds himself close to Corrigan, wishing he had the Power, the Ability, to Heal Corrigan of this wound, but he does not.. he isn’t even an Apprentice. “ What will Nyota think of this, Choke? ”

Oh, yes.. Cheveyo knows—he was there before both you and Nyota left Andarin. He got to see his mother’s best friend before he fled to the Desert. But he keeps to Corrigan’s side, if his Water was stronger, he would be a puddle—his emotions a mix.