«Plead Guilty to Live»

"It doesn't matter whether you did, or didn't, girl. I wanted you farther away from the border."

Out he strode from the cover of darkness into the moonlight, facing the fae. 

"If anything, you should be grateful you ran into me, rather than the Alpha,"

A smirk lightly touched his maw, the only hint of amusement she was graced to receive. 

"He wouldn't have given you a count down, and you sure as Hell wouldn't have a family to go back to."

The dark prince stretched, then sat, his obsidian pelt swaying methodically in the moonlight, despite the near nonexistence of breeze.

"What are you doing in this neck of the Wilds?"