Arrow Lake displaced

the bird returned.

it ate alongside her as if they were one. how had she done it? was it a mere blessing? had she...raised it? he would never know, he supposed. at least not as long as she spoke her cryptic tongue.

eventually, when the meat she tossed him was finished, he found some...slice of bravery he supposed. or perhaps his shame whittled him into an even thinner man.

gold eyes settled on the slender of her own features. uncertain where to go from here, but his gaze tilted to the curious kind all the same.