Neverwinter Forest I won't sleep tonight

As long as she heard the crunching of Rian's footsteps behind her, she did not turn to look. It was not because she disliked him or had better things on her mind, it was more to give him the freedom of doing whatever. It was a sign of silent trust, knowing that not even with her claiming the leading rank would he have attacked her. and, if so, he was young and squishy - impressionable, even with his spot in the adult ranks.

One ear flicked back, surprised at his admittance and stuttering voice. She had thought of him as bratty but headstrong, and now it seemed she had broken him. Or, well, time had done so, but she was there to witness it. Her pace slowed, concerned now, when she heard his desperate movement to catch up. As a deer with its young, Ondine curled her head carefully around the air that surrounded the boy's head now - so close it touched her.

Her bi-coloured eyes looked at him worried, a frown upon her face. She had stopped walking, not sure how to comfort such a young soul. She was fine with little potato boys, not this kind of teenager sadness. She touched her muzzle to the crown of his head as she did sometimes with Arrille, closing her eyes as she sighed. It is okay... You will heal and we will stand behind you. She knew naught what had exactly happened to him, but promised to help. I am sorry that it had to be this way.