Noctisardor Bypass Relax - what you see is what you see

merrick scoffed. what rock had she turned up from under? he was growing tired of her droning and took himself into a more inviting headspace where blood overlay her ripped throat.
"laurel," he went on when she had finished, "is at easthollow." to merrick, it looked clearly like they had never intended to come back. certainly not for the boy he had been.
the single eye grew more cryptic, cunning. "so terance ran out on you?" he scuffed a paw over the ground, trying to remember what little of the darkfurred man he could recall. "i'm pretty sure he was into my mom," merrick revealed, seeking deep into his enemy's gaze. it had been only a moment, their trek from bearclaw to the hollow, but he would run with it.