Blacktail Deer Plateau Singing In the Cave

Pema had hoped for a happy ending, but the every opposite happened. She felt bad for asking and felt a bit guilty when Engel began to tear up. It wasn't often that she saw emotion form other males. She didn't know Engel that well but she suspected that he wasn't often so emotional, and she assumed that it was an especially hard thing for him to talk about. Hearing the vicious way their pup was lost made Pema shutter. She didn't have any children of her own, but with the time she spent with Day's kids she couldn't imagine how it must feel for ones own pups. 

She listened quitely to his poem picturing the female that he discribed. She seemed warm and with is imaginative discription she felt as though she might have known this female. But thier was no chance of that. She wanted to tell him she was sorry, but he rushed off. She stood up as he did but stopped herself from following allowing him to greave or feel sarrow on his own.