Blacktail Deer Plateau I See Clearly Now

Fading sounds good (: Feel free to do so whenever! And thanks for the thread (and your patience between my replies <3)

He could have continued in silence for the rest of their walk, if not for the nagging promise he had left to fulfill. After all, he hadn't yet found Pearl a better place to think. In truth, Malachi would have chosen the same spot as she. Up a mountainside, perhaps not the cleft so near the burnt down woods, but one like it. Even with the fear of rockslides, and of the creatures that could be lurking in the deeper crags. The mountains were to be feared, but Malachi couldn't stay away from them.

Yet that made him feel like a hypocrite, so his thoughts remained stuck for suggestions, and he could only keep her walking for so long before he had to say something. Silence frustrated every attempt to organize some sage suggestion, and in the end he was forced to accept his defeat. With a small sigh he turned to her with his ears splayed sideways in embarrassment. "So, confession. I don't actually know a better place for you to think. I might have only said that to get you down from that ledge." And as if that gave her excuse to return, he hurriedly added, "but, you know, there are still plenty of places out there. We'll find something."