Well... this was emotionally harrowing, in all the good ways mind you, I'm kinda at a loss for words it really is just that good.
I feel horrible, I'm gonna blast carameldansen through my earphones.
Ok it's been an hour, this is one of those stories that make me feel in ways I struggle to articulate. I feel this urge now to go and rewrite the ending so that everybody can live happily, I always have this urge when I interact with stories that make me feel for the charachters, I immagine all the miracles I would work to make them happy.
I can't manage with this story, I can't fathom a way they could truly be happy, even if I brought back that wolf I know it would not be enough.
This happend only once before to me, with Echo, Flynn specifically.
I want to blast away these horrid things with loud music but I just can't seem to shake off the dread and misery off of me, like a seagull trapped in an oilspill.
I find part of this relativly easy to explain, on a human level as they are now happiness just isn't an option, that man has rot in his heart, he's in a small dark box, away from the stars and the sun. Worse than that, he moved on.
The truly difficult thing for me to articulate is that world, that power, that childish violence enacted from someone who didn't know any better, to "people" whose being is relative to a child. The fact that their religion, their beliefs and convictions stem from an innocent invader, from misguided love is salt on the wound.
I've been through this before, Echo did a number on me, for I think 2 whole months I was in a terrible mood, I tried my hardest to regain composure after Flynn's ending, I don't think this will leave me as vulnerable fortunatly, but I think I learned something just now, bending a world, a story untill I feel better about the ending isn't the only way to confront these feelings, just letting it wallow fro a while and then washing away the tar with sadness is another way.
I hope I made one thing really clear, this story is really good, I just needed to put down my weird thoughts somewhere and this seems like the best place.
Great job