The Heartwood there was once a smile on this face

i can edit in an ending for it and then archive, unless you wanted to post once more?

he let out a snort at the sarcastic compliment, face twisting into something akin to discomfort when it was revealed just how the pale beast had earned his latest injury. "gnarly" he let out initially, nose scrunching with disgust at imagining someone tear off half of his face and eat it.

"you take a chunk out of them too?" he wondered, choosing to believe that the man had dished out as much as he received just without the whole, you know, cannibalism part. for a moment he thought back to his last conversation with ying, wondering if this cannibal had been the source of the attacks she had warned him of.