Herbalists' Cache blue

Komodo loved things shrouded in mystery, but he sincerely wished that he could peer into the mind of the voiceless girl and know what she was thinking. He was not a dense man, and he could easily piece together that her reticence was left over from her meeting with her ex-husband and ex-children; an ex-family. Though Komodo was fairly certain that he had fathered a number of children over the years, he did not want their burden and they certainly did not want his, so the man found it hard to imagine what it would be like to shirk ones that were actually loved and actually wanted. Without her words to explain it to him, empathy was not his natural response… but try he did!

“Whut?” he encouraged her to continue despite his guarded tone, despite her discomfort. Nothing good ever came from playing it safe.