Wapun Meadow I believed it all, every word you said

Etienne kept his gaze on the young man. Quietly standing and waiting for whatever it was that Cambria decided to do. Flee, stay, converse, cry. Etienne had run thr gambit lately. So he was prepared for anything.

Etienne did not hold it against Cambria exactly. After all. He could not have given him his heart. It already belonged to another. And no matter what Etienne did sunset eyes and mountain bred held fast.

Etienne shook his head and continued his perusal of the herbs here.

You not be bot'erin' me, Cambria.

Etienne lifted his head and gazed at Cambria with barely concealed sadness. Depths of misery he could not fathom. Dey all be gone. Almost everyone in my family all dead or left dey teekon. Dey were kidnapped and peris'ed from deir torture. Suzu is gone. Manman is dead and aunties and cousins. All gone. So not great.