Caesar's Pearl 2 Chapter 18
By the time Margo and Ranger return to the fold the general mood in the Tribe during the evening meal is far gloomier than when they left in the first place.
The air is certainly grim, placid, and grave.
No one was talking, laughing, or, in the children's case, running around like they usually would do.
Every single one of them is just sitting there eating the food they have in front of them in an eerie and tense silence. As if afraid that a wrong move could set off another quarrel like it did at the dam again. There's already been enough fighting amongst them for one day here.
The tension is running very high with Caesar and Blue Eyes. You can definitely almost see and feel it in the air.
Blue Eyes is eating in the middle of his father and Maurice. At present Caesar has taken to disciplining his boy, reminding him who he is.
"You are my son," reprimanded Caesar, stern, trying to break through past Blue Eye's stubborn walls and teach him something. "I need you to listen."
Blue Eyes is having none of it.
Resentfully and full of spiteful contempt Blue Eyes threw his bowl of fruit into the dirt. Ignoring his father's lecture, Blue Eyes stalked away jumping down into a nearby fire pit. Everything Caesar wants to get Blue Eyes to recognize and learn from constantly passes through one ear and out the other.
Neither Caesar nor Maurice made an attempt to follow after him, knowing how pointless it is while the adolescent is in this state.
Caesar's lips thin in dismay as he watches a very disgruntled Blue Eyes stomp off to sit at another fire.
Caesar really is at his wits end with Blue Eyes.
Margo knows the exact remedy to fix some of what he's going through.
Especially with what she has hidden behind her back.
Authors Note:
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What do you think Margo is carrying behind her back? Just so no one gets confused the bag of goodies is hidden somewhere for when Margo can get Caesar alone after dinner for some catching up between brother and sister.
Apologies that it's taken me so long to return to this story. As you can probably tell by the ceaseless alerts and updates on my profile page I've been very busy with a bunch of other stories. Basically finishing a handful along with putting a new batch up and running. I've been on such a roll lately that it's all been a blur. Sometimes when I look at it all lately I'm still bemused that I've gotten this far. 50 in total now.
Unbelievable.
Normally this would get anyone in the grove to update every single unfinished work of fiction instead just one. The weird part is I've had major writers block for Caesar's Pearl 2 lately. Hopefully this gets matters back on the right track for this one, my friends.
Fingers crossed.