Lion Head Mesa I'm coming home again, all alone

Maybe she thought he was deserving. He did not.

You won’t even let me try, she had tried to say in defiance.

Crowfeather fixed his gaze on her, watching her tears. She said she would leave, that she would cease annoying him if that was what he wished. If he wanted to leave, she would not try to help. Wasn’t that what he deserved?

I love him.

The words had left before he could restrain them. They did not offer relief. Crowfeather did not know what would. Admitting his feelings to Belen was foolish. She could not help. She could not comfort.

I only came to say goodbye…