I really miss the house but I feel like they all kinda, developed past it ever coming back regardless of who signs where.
so now I'm making it everyone's problem.
mal, who isn't in control of the shadows but simply a vessel for its message, arranging the pieces for it's true form to shine through. the head and the hounds, the triad that protects the house, serves the house.
mal who burns himself to provide the strength for the shadows to amass. who gives everything of himself until nothing is left, succumbing- no, returning to his place in the shadows once again.
Julia learns to take the mantle, promising mal to handle the hounds as she was taught to- a strong, firm hand, promising control and purpose while demanding loyalty and obedience. the shadows don't consume her in the same way as mal, they seem to drape over her in a cloak of darkness, as if welcomed by it, moulded by it.
despite mal's absence, Julia still has the shadows and the mist. the house demands a third protector within the triad and while she stood tall, it was clear that she wasn't that point- it was the one promised to her, the one with darkness already seeping from her erratic heart.
brody and buddy are her left and right hand, they will always be there for her, to protect the house and the vessel, but skye is her heart, the one that places the final piece of a seemingly endless puzzle. as she succumbs to the darkness, Julia sees her for the skinning light she truly is. their house may never be a home, it is much larger than any of them, but Julia feels a rare comfort with the three that life never awarded her.












