Haunted Wood The sun also rises

Returned now to solid ground, Reyes paced there and watched as the three worked in tandem. The dark boy moving swiftly to fill that gap he himself had left; Teya moving effortlessly within the water to strike at the elk; the larger man taking up a position and striking also — meanwhile Reyes merely watched, as if he had stranded himself, much the opposite of the sunken quarry that struggled against the mud.

He felt a burning ambition to return to the hunt, chiefly because of the other man present. The way that Teya so eagerly worked alongside him, glowing with unspoken praise and adoration, which spiked jealousy throughout Reyes' system. He neared the edge again and could not breach the invisible line of it, regardless.