Pāhonoa te oro

He’s standing in the middle of a battlefield covered in smoke and fire, surrounded by dying men and broken shields, and you can feel something is about to change forever because even though he looks calm there’s a storm building behind his eyes and without realizing it this one moment is about to destroy an empire and everything he loves along with it, and as the cold wind blows across the field he reaches down and touches the dirt like it’s the last time he’ll ever feel home, because deep down