The Heartwood Never opened myself this way.

Hopefully he will not be so grave and mopey the next time they meet! Thank you so much for the thread!! <3

The traveler did not share her opinion on the things that had come to pass. Dutch felt she did not need to, for it was obvious how one ought to feel about such things. In any case, he felt he had done his part in cementing the truth of this tale. Perhaps not the whole truth, and perhaps not nothing but the truth — but the truth as it would go down in history, if this budding historian had anything to say about it.

But, for just this once, the panther found he had very little to say.

"Go in peace," he replied, lacking the energy to try and keep her any longer. "Your return may bring them some measure of peace."

This idea, too, would be recorded in his histories.