Blacktail Deer Plateau Social Casualty

Just read through the Ankyra/Duskfire battle thread and realized someone PP'd Malachi into the fight. Gonna roll with that, so my apologies if there are any inconsistencies between this and anything I wrote earlier!

The softness of Scarlett's voice set the man at ease, and offered an assurance that his words had been heard without the darker undertones that filled him. The beginning of a smile curved upon his lips - pathetic as it was - and stood in stark contrast to his downcast eyes.

But his face darkened when she spoke again, and his mouth tightened. All the questions he had done well to avoid spilled from Scarlett now, and he found himself retreating again. He averted his eyes. "There was a raid from the sea wolves. I don't know what happened to Duskfire." Heat rose in his cheeks when the sensation came again, of his teeth sinking into the flesh of another, spilling the blood of a wolf. Fire and salt and blood - that was the last he had seen of the Glacier, and the memory made him recoil. "I'm sorry. But... is the Glacier far from here?" His voice wavered and broke. Tuwawi's wrath surely burnt against him now, more likely than ever before. To see her again would be too soon, and the thought he had settled in a land near Duskfire distilled his comfort. Of all their differences, the fire-kissed queen still haunted him. This much he shared with Scarlett.