Blacktail Deer Plateau Times are changing

he smiled at her; she need not even ask. shifting close, he turned his eyes back to the bright moon, drinking it the serenity of its radiance, and did not speak. yet many things weighed upon his tongue, and so, at length, the druid looked down upon blue willow's face. "i am sending casmir to the north, to explore new territories for us," he murmured. "unless you think it unwise, of course. he is young, but he is healthy and fleet of limb, and ranges far even now."

they had not spoken of relocating; he knew perhaps her heart would be against it, and so he left off talking again, and encouraged the verbal expression of her thoughts with a wan press of his lips against her eartip.