Two Rivers Isle life is sweet, in the belly of the beast

The pleading look wrought over his face, the sudden intelligence in his pendulous golden orb was enough to send her over the edge.  I'm sorry, she whined, ears flattened atop her crown as she crouched, I can't do anything more for you.  She wasn't going to risk getting hurt, not when Raven...

Raven.  She had to get back.  I'm sorry, she repeated again as she fled, her morality at war with what she had just done — condemn an invalid boy to death for an atrocious mistake.