Meadowlark Prairie I've been losing sleep while I'm at home

And then it wasn't a game at all. He couldn't tell how she was feeling from her voice, though it remained light. It was no longer levity he assumed coating her, however. Taikon, of all people, knew very well what the horrors of life could do to a person. He had also grown up in a society where slavery was normalized.
The smile faded from his features, and his ears bowed as he lowered his head respectfully. I'm sorry, I was.. It wasn't a very good joke, he said, knowing that claiming 'I was only kidding' was hardly something that a woman feeling powerless was wanting to hear. Are you okay? He didn't know what her state was. He didn't know if she was escaping someone or something, in which case her hiding would have made much more sense. If you're.. not okay, I can help, he offered, knowing nothing about her. Just as he had done with Zephyr, he was quick to offer space for her to need whatever she wanted, and for him to give whatever she needed.