Redhawk Caldera you did not break me

She continued to ignore him and Peregrine felt his stomach clench, then turn to stone. He had been through a lot in his life, yet never before had something hurt him as badly as this. It left him breathless with pain and unable to speak, to move, to think. He was broken, a shell of his former self in many ways... but why should Fox abandon him so absolutely in his time of need and strife?

He somehow coaxed his nerves to fire just enough to begin walking away, leaving the Alpha female to resume her interrogation of the newcomer. Peregrine went several steps before recollecting himself enough to eke out, "I'd like to talk to you, please, when you're done here." His heart broke into an anxious sprint—reality had only just hit him, was he ready to deal with it?—and he felt jellylike as he moved out of sight to wait.