Duskfire Glacier Dare I Care

I anticipate some pain with this thread.

He had been with Maera as soon as he had sighted Tuwawi; there would be very little time between her arrival upon the borders and the inevitable appearance at the den. Njal said nothing to the sleeping child as he nested with her - too much had transpired lately, and even if seeing her mother was imperative, Njal felt that she needed her sleep.

When he heard the crackling of the forest just outside, he begrudgingly left Maera. Njal slid out of the entrance and moseyed through the nearby glen where he suspected Tuwawi was also wandering - and there, through the trees, he could see her. But he did not go to her. The man stood stalwart before the near-empty den and waited.