Great Bear Wilderness your eyes so big

try as he might to conceal the surprise mixed with the icy feeling of a stone dropping into the pit of his stomach — something akin to dread mixed precariously with suffocating guilt — as his father's voice and figure join their little gathering; atausiq cannot. it morphs the lines of his face like an open book; easy to read. his gaze shifts from hua to greyback where it remains; arrested. the gig is up, he knows instantly. his father stands before him, as majestic and powerful as ever ...the judge and the jury for the crimes against the family — running away like a coward with his tail betwixt his legs — that atausiq knows he has committed. crimes that had gotten someone else exiled... though at least for that part he has already exiled himself to neverwinter.

still, he assumes that this is why greyback is here and wonders, suspiciously, if leta had told on him. no, she couldn't. she wouldn't ...but would he really know? no.

father. atausiq greets, voice thick; clipped. a private greeting his commanding officer ...and then as hua speaks, imperial gaze volleys to her where it sets upon her. she knew? no, she suspected, as she tells his father. heart thumping madly in his chest, atausiq looks once more to greyback.