Blacktail Deer Plateau mother, do you think they'll drop the bomb?

Aditya's firm instruction to stay away had worked for about a day of restlessness before the girl had snatched a rabbit from the nearest cache and gone to him under the guise of offering lunch. She drew up in time to see the rear end of a white woman - after a beat determined to be Forrest - slip into their den. Slightly unnerved by the odd sounds coming within, the rabbit was dropped into the snow when she began to make them out, moving nearer to the den entrance. She peered inside owlishly, unable to fit in alongside the rest but making out the thick stench of sickness as it clung to everything. "Adi" she hissed into the den, wiggling in a little further but pausing at the mouth when she realized she'd only succeed in completely overcrowding the den.

Her gut rolled as she watched him, reaching out to the woman as if she were a siren and he a drowning sailor. He looked sick, wrong, and tension stiffened her spine as she twisted toward Forrest, asking only, "what's wrong with him?" She was a healer, wasn't she, though the question in her gaze asked more than simply the words she uttered; why was the woman here, how long had he been this way, and was it all her fault? She ought never have listened to him, she knew that now.