Haunted Wood another way out

At first, Clarence was a little put off by the change in mood, but the needy side of him won out and he leaned against Santiago, laying his head down on the older man's shoulder. His body - so tense and coiled from the several days of travel and multiple fights he'd been in recently - slowly began to relax. Perhaps he was being childish - needing comfort like this - but things had been difficult recently and he was so, so ready to rest.

"I'm sorry I was mean to you," he apologized, looking toward the ground by his mate's hind feet.