Wild Berry Meadow sloe-eyed demon

"there is an idea that states that if you love someone, you must set it free. perhaps this is what he intends to do; by offering you freedom, even if you do not wish it, you will be free to move past him. it may be that he is proffering such to assuage his own guilt." no longer could lasher hold back his question, for the saltwater hovering in the younger wolf's eyes tore at his heart, but he reserved it to ask in the span of another moment or two.

"i am sorry for the way you have been hurt. to be shoved aside by one who claims to love you is one of the greatest agonies that can pierce one's soul." lasher wished to comfort the snowy creature, but the vulnerability surrounding his companion must not be breached. "i wonder, and forgive my forwardness, if this man of whom you speak is peregrine?"