Broken Antler Fen Some free time

His words were met with excitement and a smile, until he mentioned Aviana and her expression dropped. The shy, silent, girl had encountered her father, it seemed. She felt repulsed, and another horrible expression she could not name. She faltered, maw opening a moment to close the next. "I-" she begun, then stopped. "I didn't know that. I thought of...Darius as just a kind of guy that was a jerk, not one who would-"

Realizing now what a horrible tyrant her father must have been, this proof so close made her drop her demeanor quickly. "I-okay." she said, ashamed suddenly of her entire family. The man that had sired her, the mother that had been so absent. Her mother she could not entirely blame, but Darius she could. Her ears folded across her skull in shame, excitement and shock diminished. "Who...is Burke?"