Ouroboros Spine wolf-father, at the door

as galana tells her story, kivaluk almost wishes he wouldn't have asked. he didn't want to hear that she was basically kidnapped. his heart sinks to his belly and his stomach twists and knots in ways that has his breath leaving him in a sharp hiss. he is horrified and angry. not at her, but at the wolves that had taken her. taken her from their mom. that had taken her from him.

he blinks a few times, swallowing the anger and bile that rises in his throat.

he is not ready, yet, to respond.

do not apologize, galana. it is not your fault. she had been such a young child! how could anyone blame her?

i suppose what matters now is that you are here and you are safe.