Moonsong Glacier sistermine

It took more than a failed hunt to paint a man's features in such defeat. Dutch was not familiar with the depth of his sorrows. They were of the same age, he thought, but he felt very young, all of the sudden.

"She is well. She heals," Dutch replied, hoping that Ariadne had already been injured the last time this man had seen her. He did not want to bear bad news to so dispirited a man! "She would see you fed and rested," he added, not knowing their relationship, but knowing this to be true. She was too sweet a girl not to.

"Please come and eat," he said again. "We will call her."

Dutch tipped back his head to send a querying howl to @Ariadne: Cloud woman, are you near? He would not pull her down from the mountain with her leg as it was; if she was too far, they would simply have to go and meet her. But if she was still in the foothills, Dutch thought it was better she traveled toward them than this man take any more steps than he needed to.