Blackfeather Woods bloom, gloom & doom

Damien allowed the girl to settle beside him, ignoring the Inuttut muttering as he resumed the bone chewing. But she demanded his attention once again, repeating her question, this time in the common tongue. Damien observed her expression with a deadpan stare, which slowly turned into an amused grin. "Pain?" he chuckled, a deep laughter that rumbled his chest. "What makes you think that, Nyx?" he asked, using her middle name as he favored it over the one her parents had given her.

Unlike the first time they'd met, Damien was grateful that the star-kissed girl could at least manage speech this time around. He didn't have it for certain, but he'd come to that specific place for a reason that day. Was it Kove, Nemesis, or anyone else for that matter, that he'd been meaning to find was unknown even to him, but he felt a lot like glad to have found the little girl anyway.