1965
he paces when he's stressed, now.
too often he hears her voice, trying to reach out.
[[the spurs help. ͢->1972-4]]1972-1974
he hasn't learned that the oppressive jungle heat and the layer of sweat on him at all times is the flashback trigger.
he sees phantoms of her in the vulpic japanese man bleeding black into the mud.
[[then her voice rang through, snared on tape. ͢->1982]]
1982-1984
a spectral maternal presence lost her corporeal pupil to hubris, and another grew in his wake.
[[she watches her son craft a horned husk and wonders where it all went wrong ͢->20XX]]taran (s. gaelic)
fir. gin. ┐ iol. -ain
<i>ghost of an unbaptized child</i>
[[➜ ->1965]]
20XX
she's lost them both, now, the two of them marked for damnation by their own hands. squared trainwrecks; twice the burden of watching disaster unfold.
she watches them pass, and plans in the back of her mind to later give them the beating of their lives.
[[they slip back into her arms at their own times, and in that instant all judgement is suspended ͢->Taran]]