Dragoncrest Cliffs Wisenheimer

Ever since that first encounter on the borders Merlin had kept his distance from Erzulie. Rosalyn he could tolerate, her wife on the other hand evoked such a myriad of emotions in him that they threatened to drown him, even if he caught a glimpse of her from afar. Had there been any parent figure in is life to aid him now, they would have told him that it was perfectly normal to feel that way. Some people were able to raise "attractive" to new levels and this lady was that person to Merlin. A lonely boy's first true crush. 

Therefore, when she joined to run alongside him without so much as saying a word, Merlin cast her a fleeting glance of shock and fear, then, being unable to say anything at all, he dumbly stared ahead, feeling suddenly very painfully aware of all the things he was not, while Erzulie was the very impersonation of Venus in a wolf form.