Firefly Ravine contralto

"no."

the quiet word brings her to a halt, near the top of the ravine, and the ire it flares up within her nearly causes her to turn and chase him, tail between his legs, back from whence he'd came. she sucks in a very deep breath, though, and faces him with eyes that brook no opposition.

Nyra kill my ma, Avicus says, just as quietly, but with a menace absent from Ashlar's tone, then repeated, with emphasis: we will kill her.

and he is free to go, if he chooses. plenty of healers that could handle blood and fear; Evien had been one of them. but this is his last opportunity.

if Ashlar leaves now, she will never again allow him to darken her doorstep.

she stares, waiting.