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Would it be best to leave immediately?

Heda did not insist on that, but she had sought him out with such focus, Glaukos had to think the threat that came looking for him was not far.

You were kind to me, I won't forget it.
His stoicism brings a taut expression to his face but he holds his tongue—it would be better if you did.

What would he tell those living within Bearclaw? Staying there would potentially bring this threat, whatever it was, to the doorstep of another couple with children on the way; could he justify that?

Glaukos mind was a blur.

He knew he had to leave, promptly. Heda said south. Marching orders. One last look at Heda, seeing her plainly now, this frightened, sad woman clinging to something like hope.

Take care of them. And he was lunging away through the rain, moving towards Bearclaw—but he would not go to the valley. His path would wind through the wilderness towards the mountains and then drop to the south, as she had said.