Neverwinter Forest deepest forest, darkest wood

She was thankful. Kaluktuk did wish he could offer more, but it was not something he felt comfortable with. He was raised to put his emotions aside and to find strength in the physical rather than the emotional, the esoteric, or things of spiritual nature; those were the realm of women, more so the sunshine people that Vaire came from and not so much the Tartok warbands of Kaluktuk's heritage. He could offer his ear whenever necessary and provide a presence, and sometimes that was enough.

Evidently to Vaire, that was what she had needed. You are welcome.

It helped him too, to a degree. As Kaluktuk departed from her company he thought of his advice and found sense in it for himself; when he thought of what Vaire was going through and what she had shared, he thought of all his own hurts and abandonments, and would go on to ruminate through the day upon this conversation.