Blackbeak Bluff Casser une Jambe

Shaky and plenty worried, he made a point of allowing Pepper to lean on him. He would lead him home, he would treat him and treat him well.

A sense of anger was beginning to bubble up inside him. He wondered if they had followed him here, or if it was merely a coinidence - but what he knew for certain was that is the ash son was here, then it was not certain that the rest would be. But the soot son? He must be following his mother.

Yes, their mother. She was to blame. She would be the one punished.

But this punishment could wait, now he needed to tend to Pepper. His new life would come before his old one. Looking homewards, he began their trek.