Blackfeather Woods you're a mercurial man john

Soon, he tells her.

She grimaces. Soon is not enough. Perhaps he does not tell her because he cares for her, but it is her care for him that causes her to thrust herself far from her comfort zone. The shadows have taught her much. And she would learn more before fighting the very battle he had. And who said she would fight fair? Kotake would poison the witch who left this mark upon his person.

I want to help, she pressed, her two-toned eyes cool as she collected herself.

Though typically the girl was patient, the most patient of them, she could not help but feel irate here and now. Though he had a point... the Melonii's would remember. All the same, Kotake wanted to see it done. She wanted to take down the enemy. What can I do, she inquired. Would Vaati not do the same for her? Kotake believed that he would. Not for their brother, no—she knew there was little, if any, love shared between them. And though Kotake left many questions for her own devotion in the months past, she had returned from the shadows to reveal her loyalty.

It would always and forever be to the Melonii, first and foremost. And then to their woods.