Role

Chapter 2

Not all adults accepted him, though most did, the very few that did not simply chose
to interact with him but in the briefest manners. Due to the curious nature of a child,
Tahka did approach these people, trying to appease them, and hoping they would come
to accept him, but as a child Tahka learned another truth to the nature of what he was
and would always be.
One day he did approach a respected hunter in the community, a ranger whom when seeing
Tahka always grew sad, and this time was no exception. It took Tahka a few attempts for
the sad ranger to speak to him, "Little brother, I would try not to cause you more
misery in your life as you already suffer and always have, but the words I would say
to you would make you suffer now, and always until the end of your days."
Tahka was a child, and the warning went by him as if the ranger had not spoke, and could
only look up at him begging, "Please?"

It was the ranger then, that explained life and death, our roles within it, why animals
become our food, and us too, that become food as part of an eternal cycle within life, to
continue life. With a look of pity, and extreme sadness, the ranger bent down with his
hands around Tahkas' tiny weist, and said to him, "Little brother, you cheated death, and
cheated life with your continued existance. You should be dead right now, and rightfully
your continued existance is wrong. I am sorry."

The words of the ranger rang true, those words have haunted him since.