Ravensblood Forest i'm gonna put my family back together again

A scalding flush of red embarassment laced his cheeks as he realized Chusi had seen his blunder: he pinned his ears and looked stubbornly to the ground. It was not just that he was, as she put, 'really sensitive' -- it was also that he was really a big giant baby; if she had laughed aloud his ego would have been crushed.

Chusi had much more social grace than he, and seemed to know better than to let a giggle slip.

He followed her mutely until she stopped at the heart of the forest; while he had seen the sap trickle on some boughs, the tree they stood in front of seemed especially weepy. Ingram tilted his head back in awe and beheld the raw seep in his vision. Before he could help it he uttered: "they look sick," He exclaimed, torn between worry for the fevered trees and excitable interest to know more of what caused their perpetual weeping.