Hushed Willows and never for a minute did he believe he could escape

a voice slithers from the shadows; calling him boy and telling him to 'mind his manners'. though physically, ingram had yet to reach his maturity, he had ceased to be a boy the day he committed matricide. becoming fragheda had not been the action of a child — at least, not mentally. ingram takes the words as condescending and lets it rub into him as an insult.

but the hidden stranger couldn't know that.

the next bit was long-winded and it is all that ingram has to take from snorting. the beast in him that thrived in chaos in all of it's forms prickles; a small rush of adrenaline at the thought of toying.

only on the condition that you don't command me. ingram says to the shadows. there was only one wolf he listened to and she was miles away working on building their clan.