Ocean's Breath Plateau sky flier

now a roll of his shoulders did push red leaf back, and chakliux retreated further from the lodge where she cried for him. his mind was too given over to worry for her; his body was unresponsive, for a thousand reasons but the forefront was that red leaf did not seem to know where she was.
that cen had been as selfish in his loving as he was in all other things did not surprise chakliux, but now he wondered how many times cen had possessed red leaf without her willingness, and further resolved in his step backward. healing must come first, and then she would find no shortage of men willing to bring her body to the pleasures denied before. this was not the way she could make herself forget.
"stop. i will not. but i am not angry, and i do not think less of you. but stop this, now, please."
chakliux glanced over his shoulder at the tracks that ghelan had left in the sandy dirt, then back to the mother of the boy, shrouded in her own grief. "let me help you here, red leaf. i will bring him back. let me talk to him as a man." as a father.