"I've been ready to pass for a long time, Jay. My body has been tired, and I've made my peace."
"I know, great-grandpa. That's why I made sure to do what we could while we still had time. I would regret it forever if I hadn't shown you the ship one last time, and seen your hometown with you."
"I'm so proud of you, Jay, you're so much like your dad. It's so very wrong that he had to pass, and I'm still here. I never expected that our ship would still be fighting, so long after I bought her."
"I know, great-grandpa... You bought a great ship and you built a great family. Everything I have, everything I am... It all traces back to you. Through my father, through my grandfather... It all comes back to you."
"It was my duty and my pleasure to lead as meaningful and happy a life as I could. And I can think of no greater honour than to have the seven children of my grandchildren growing up into the men and women that you are."
"And there's never been anyone that I would more like to be like than you, great-grandfather. I'm blessed to have had you stay with us for so long, and you know that I'm going to be visiting the homestead to bother you for advice until I'm as old as you are."
"Your father's still on the ship?"
"Yes. It was his home, I still talk with him from time to time."
"When you speak to him next, please be sure to tell him that I love him, that I've missed him since he passed, and that his grandfather says that he'd best keep keeping an eye on young commanders."
I nodded solemnly "I will. I promise. Where will you be when you've gone? Nonver?"
"Yes. My life was there, and it has been a difficult decade being away from your great-grandma so long. We will be there together."
"I'll visit when I can. I want so much to tell you about the success of the ship, about the lovely young woman that I find. About my sons. About my grandsons. About our legacy together as links of the same chain taking the enfields forever into the future."
"Never forget how important the rest of your family is. That chain isn't one link and then one link and then one link. It is like maille, strong because each piece has so many others around it."
"I won't. I promise."
"Stay awhile, Jay... I won't get many more chances to see you through physical eyes."
My eyes watered, and I smiled in spite of myself. "Of course. There is nowhere I would rather be than here."
"Always ready, Jay."
"Ever onwards, great-grandfather."
"I know, great-grandpa. That's why I made sure to do what we could while we still had time. I would regret it forever if I hadn't shown you the ship one last time, and seen your hometown with you."
"I'm so proud of you, Jay, you're so much like your dad. It's so very wrong that he had to pass, and I'm still here. I never expected that our ship would still be fighting, so long after I bought her."
"I know, great-grandpa... You bought a great ship and you built a great family. Everything I have, everything I am... It all traces back to you. Through my father, through my grandfather... It all comes back to you."
"It was my duty and my pleasure to lead as meaningful and happy a life as I could. And I can think of no greater honour than to have the seven children of my grandchildren growing up into the men and women that you are."
"And there's never been anyone that I would more like to be like than you, great-grandfather. I'm blessed to have had you stay with us for so long, and you know that I'm going to be visiting the homestead to bother you for advice until I'm as old as you are."
"Your father's still on the ship?"
"Yes. It was his home, I still talk with him from time to time."
"When you speak to him next, please be sure to tell him that I love him, that I've missed him since he passed, and that his grandfather says that he'd best keep keeping an eye on young commanders."
I nodded solemnly "I will. I promise. Where will you be when you've gone? Nonver?"
"Yes. My life was there, and it has been a difficult decade being away from your great-grandma so long. We will be there together."
"I'll visit when I can. I want so much to tell you about the success of the ship, about the lovely young woman that I find. About my sons. About my grandsons. About our legacy together as links of the same chain taking the enfields forever into the future."
"Never forget how important the rest of your family is. That chain isn't one link and then one link and then one link. It is like maille, strong because each piece has so many others around it."
"I won't. I promise."
"Stay awhile, Jay... I won't get many more chances to see you through physical eyes."
My eyes watered, and I smiled in spite of myself. "Of course. There is nowhere I would rather be than here."
"Always ready, Jay."
"Ever onwards, great-grandfather."
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you should really send this to a studio in California to have this made into a movie. the script is A+ surely you would get a deal and sell the idea IMMEDIATELY with this compelling piece of artwork.
the cross hatching lmao. yo, for real though how did wolf people get a boat. why do they have scales on their arms
and how the hell is his great grandfather just now dying. shouldn't he be in agony instead of holding hands.
Pixar would so buy this idea.
the cross hatching lmao. yo, for real though how did wolf people get a boat. why do they have scales on their arms
and how the hell is his great grandfather just now dying. shouldn't he be in agony instead of holding hands.
Pixar would so buy this idea.
It's not a boat, it's a spaceship. They have bird-arms because they're not wolves, they're enfields. And my great grandfather, whom the character is based from, lived to be 99.9 years old (he was so bummed that he wouldn't hit 100, and dying is not always an agonizing process, sometimes it is just a slow slide out as the body gradually loses the fight).
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