Arrow Lake home to her

her comment was not comforting, eliciting a frown from poor terance. "hibernation," was all he could think to say at first, since it was true, bears did sleep a lot, "my mom told me about it-- bears sleep a lot in the winter because of hibernation." oh but maybe she already knew that... she did live with the thing. he wanted to ask more but, well, it just seemed weird. he was uncomfortable, to say the least. 

but she moved on.

"my name's terance," he said, forcing a small smile and trying to move away from the bear. but, it kind of stuck with him, unfortunately. "sorry i just, i got these from a bear, i'm not the biggest fan of bears, it's weird to hear that you live with one," he suddenly explained, shaking his head and turning slightly to the side to show her the worst of his scars.