Blacktail Deer Plateau I could use a day or two

Claiming to be fine, he nodded; he suddenly felt awkward standing there, wondering if he should have taken his leave just the same as Nieve had. But he wanted to greet her, to welcome Rosalyn back—he wondered before of her whereabouts, wondering if she might find her way back to the pack. But now that she had, he couldn’t come up with any words to share—and he got the feeling that, perhaps, he wasn’t quite needed there. Glancing between the two older women, he eventually looked back to the returned pirate and said, “AteKai. Welcome home.”

With nothing more to say—and wanting to intrude on their reunion no longer—Aningan offered a small smile before dismissing himself and escaping the unsettling atmosphere (and breathing easier, away from the pair—the oddity of staying and staring, to begin with, finally realised).