Broken Antler Fen wormwood

hug her? teya wanted to snap at eljay, break the skin and punish him for something he had not done. the rage in her was great and choking, a confusion that showed; she snuffled and wiped tears from her cheeks but the flow of them did not stem.
ears splayed, and silently, finally she nodded.
he would find her stiff at first, unused to the touch of men. but once teya came to realize the very calm of eljay in that moment, she drew a shuddering breath and raggedly exhaled into more sobbing.
wraen would not have wanted her to cry!
bridget's call rose for the pack, and teya gathered the sound of it to her heart as she buried her face wherever the caretaker would allow and cried the last of her regrets into his fur.