Blacktail Deer Plateau Slow burn

If Catori had asked him what had happened while she was gone, he would not have been able to tell her. It was boring without you, he might've said, which was true, but it would also be leaving out his snapping at Engel, and the return of Sylvas's long-lost daughter, and the return of their not-so-long-lost son, and a variety of other, smaller things that just weren't worth mentioning at all.

So it was probably a good thing their 'hello's remained entirely nonverbal. Grayday ran his nose all over his wife's pretty coat, unable to see the stains he left behind. If he had seen, he probably wouldn't have cared - it would all come out soon enough, and the more evidence that she belonged to him, the better.