Wapun Meadow anywhere else is hollow

Kirain stiffened, her eyes widening as she snapped her focus back to the strange male. This was escalating far faster than she'd intended. Taking a slow, deliberate breath to steady herself, she offered him a tentative smile.

My companion isn’t here, she began softly, her voice carefully measured. To be honest, I don’t even know where he is right now. He mentioned having meetings to attend and left the day before yesterday. All he told me was to explore, and that he’d return.

Her tone was gentle, an attempt to ease the tension crackling between them. She couldn’t quite understand his eagerness to leap to aggression, but she knew better than to test his patience. One wrong move, and this could spiral out of her control.