Bramblepoint medusa and hemlock

peregrine's glance did not go unnoticed; lasher was too slow to answer before the panther revealed his crooked leg. the pride in the panther's tones quite horrified taltos -- was his former lover somehow enthused that his son had effectively lamed him? yet he spoke none of this, ears folding back in an expression of empathy. "have you a healer at the caldera? perhaps i might bring you something." 

he smiled then. "my daughters also; they wander the forest now, and i with them. filled with questions and their own observations. deirdre is quite smitten with death now."