Blackfoot Forest all gods dispense suffering without reason

the sea. it takes all of wintersbane's self control not to pull a face. what was so special about the coast? what was the appeal? he can't see it, too far stuck on his own dislike of sand, salt water and the bad memories that are now attached to the coast for him. he'll travel there again he doesn't doubt but only because it's a necessary evil. nevertheless, he's not eager to relive the fight with his estranged sister and the fact that he could have and wanted to kill her for the things she said to him.

you are very strong she announces and he makes no move to dispute her words. he is physically strong, that much was true. the fact that she drew upon that first and foremost in response to his why causes him to reassess and calculate the circumstance. not a guide then. you want a bodyguard? he asks, giving voice to his new assumption. well, if she is, he thinks, she's crossed paths with the right tundrian. hydra's words come back to him then, sudden and un-summoned, you're a protector. his once mentor wasn't wrong, he supposed. the fact that this lovely sylph of a stranger draws upon that, however indirectly, only proves that hydra's conclusion of who and what he was at his core was not biased.

warlord. the questions and that word in particular draws wintersbane out of his contemplations and he notes her studying the blood red pawprint on his shoulder. ah. ironic, that she should mention warlord for it'd been the dream of the once-cub to be a warlord. she is not of blackfeather nor any of is subsidiary branches outside of the wilds; her inquisition gives her away. he cannot tell her the truth of it — it was one of the tenets he'd sworn before the daedra. she's done the work for him though — she's already ascertained an explanation for it herself.

perhaps, wintersbane allows elusively, lips quirking at the edges. it doesn't bother you? he poses the half question and half statement to her, ears cupping forth with unbidden curiosity and shadowed amusement.