King Elk Forest sweet adeline

he offers a tentative smile, a fleeting but pleased thing: "sure - burke mentioned maybe wanting to go as well." a scouting trip seems out of the question with their numbers as fragile as they are, but delight holds onto some hope that they will find some new joiners and by the time it's warm, it'll be safe to travel. "thanks, malice," he adds again, dipping his head quickly. with burke, malice, and mato's story, that just leaves brienne - who he's been avoiding because of the whole mato thing but that's another story (ha).

with nothing else to ask the woman off the top of his head, delight quietly excuses himself and makes his way back into the forest, leaving her to her interesting leaves once more.