Cerulean Cape temporal

part of ingram desires to ask trikova how the starfish tasted while another part of him wishes not to know. he imagines — as much as he can — and balks at the little peep of morbid curiosity he has. somethings, he tells himself, are better left unknown. how starfish taste, their texture ...is one of those things, for him.

trikova asks him to talk about his birth pack then, and he supposes it is only fair since he has come to know that she was a daughter of ursus.

i was born in a pack called rivenwood. they claim the bypass...or they did. if they were still there or even around ingram didn't know; truthfully, didn't care to know. he was not remorseful for abandoning them to hunt his mother, nor what resulted from that fateful meeting ...but he suspects they would not take the news well, despite that he has no desire to return. he is trikova and blackwater's keeper now. it was nothing special. he does not say it cruelly but just simply.