King Arthur's Story: The Stone Boys

In the beginning it had been just Arthur, his brother Robert, and their mother. Fathers weren't common in the MacDougald household. Arthur's bit the bullet when he was very young, and his brother's dad ran off with another woman. It was six years before either man uncrossed their fingers and accepted that Dave wasn't going anywhere and neither was his brood.
The Stone boys were not unlike mountains. Arthur and Robert themselves being on the meeker side of the male spectrum, it was difficult for either of them to grasp the blunt nature of communicating with the giants. This would be their eighth year together and despite everything, Arthur was excited at the chance to learn more of his step-siblings' bravado-infused exploits.
Arthur's mother