Grouse Thicket You'll never know what hit you

Malice rolled her eyes with a slight smirk on her face, not sure how to shoot him down properly. She guessed he was not a man of reasoning when it came to these sort of things, which was a shame because one could not deny he had good looks. But good looks weren't everything. She would never let a man like him into her heart simply because he was cute. She was a sucker for power and control, and he had neither.

As he left, she, too, went back home. Hadraniel had taken away her will to explore further, and for now she would just go back to her den.