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Raptor looked upon that light in her eyes but could not understand what it was she knew that he did not. She was the same age as him but somehow seemed years wiser, and it made him feel as young and as small and stupid as a whelp. Not that he wasn't already feeling like that.

"Ha, amends," he scoffed, rubbing his wrist across his nose. "I don't even know her name. I—" the story died in his mouth as soon as it tried to spring off his tongue. It tasted like death too. It was so unfathomably foolish, and it became even more so the more he thought of it and the more he spoke of it. Raptor shook his head, raising and swiping paw in the air in a forget it gesture.

"Why do you care anyway? Who are you?"