Phantom Hollow You can take it all, you can take it all

The looks of her couldn't be more clear. Flicker had taken a severe injury from their adventurer's mission at Blackfeather Woods, but in some twisted way Damien saw it as the least of their problems. Had he allowed the red woman to continue to threaten his niece at her doorstep maybe neither of them would have lived to tell it. He liked to think that he was a big, bad, invincible wolf, but the truth was that they had been surrounded. Her injury was the price Damien had to pay for both their lives, and he would have done it a thousand times if he had to.

That doesn't look too well, he said calmly as when he crossed paths with the scout. For despite his opinion on the situation he wasn't indifferent to a subordinate's suffering. He assumed that Flicker was smart enough to understand why he'd done it, so he wouldn't bother explaining unless she showed any signs of mistrust.