Blacktail Deer Plateau You can't stomach that stuff, that's not in you

At least she welcomed his presence, there were no ill words directed to him for attempting to calm her nerves. To try and chase away the negative thoughts with a moment of positive thinking - even if such a thing would never fix their problem. No, they had to be strong and wait out the famine. That or take everyone and move away from Teekon Wilds and go where the prey would be found. But the quakes couldn't last forever... could they? In time the prey would return, the ground would flourish yet again. Patience. Is all he said in return. A soft word with no sarcastic undertones.

Her gasp drew his eye, a brow curving toward the dirt as a vague frown traced his lips. He had tried to forget the injury, but with recent events, he began to wonder. Did he become some kind of hideous monster after the incident? First Rhaella picks a different male as a lover, one without a deformity, then the prying eyes of everyone around, the pup Reyes (though being a pup his words stung less, being the brat he was) and now this, making babes gasp in horror. Someday he would grow numb to such a treatment, but for now, with the wound still under a year old, he was still growing into it.

A fire. He was beautiful once, a man with a face carved by the angels themselves. Strong and charming, but it seemed that the fates had something else in mind. Three years of his life as nothing less than beautiful - and now he was causing horrified gasps and turned away.