Jade Fern Grove hauntings

ravenwolf drew a step, and merrick felt himself snared in the hallway of her knowing gaze. 
did she know all things, and truly?
the admission came to merrick's tongue, but he could not more fit words to the idea than he could to speak it. and what good would it do? vexed deep within himself that he had done this to them, he thought wildly ahead.
and all the same merrick suddenly felt his hunger light for her, as if the absence of the bear-cubs had allowed him to visibly recall the woman in his mind.
moving again, moving through the the rich forest-green shadows; here the stone plinth where gannet had taught him about the stars, here where he had once stood with arbiter, and here, where —
an overgrown den, ivy snaking the stones walls and falling in tangled grey-emerald swathes before the mouth of the cave he had once shared with nunataq.
"this was the last place i existed before you." merrick stared toward the doorway, and then his eye found his beloved once more. "you see it is empty. dead. as it should be. you are my life now."