Blackfeather Woods [m] you don't want to hurt yourself by looking too closely

Feel free to ignore him ~

He arrived with the sad remains of an old hare hanging from his jaws, ears limply hanging from one side of his mouth and the half-eaten body from the other. The dark of the wood paled in comparison to the dark of the cave; so much so that Mou didn't feel comfortable stepping in to it at first. He heard voices mixing in the dark but couldn't make out the words. He'd have to get closer. Wolfskull gave him an otherworldly feeling of apprehension, like he was scared of something inside, and attributed that to his trip through the caverns with the bear. It was so dark inside — he found himself slinking through the corridor and brushing one wall or another as he gathered his bearings.

Once he spotted the ghostly figure of Maegi he stopped, but just for an instant. Mou carried the hare over to her and placed it by her feet. An offering to both the doctor and the patient, although it likely wouldn't solve any problems or alleviate the tension between Maegi and himself. He couldn't help but look at the fire-coated girl; but this too was fleeting, and he turned away from both of them as if to depart from their company again, unwilling to disturb them or to make things worse. Mou knew he'd made a judgement call and it could very easily backfire on all of them.