Stone Circle the away mission

We can wrap up with one more post from you, or we can keep going if Greyback decides to stop him - I'm game for either (: This has been so much fun <3

He notices the way Greyback eyes him, how suspicion bleeds through every word, and Merrit feels his stomach drop and his throat constrict with a chill. No one has ever looked at him like that before, and he suddenly feels very small.

You don't believe me.

The words never leave his tongue, but they fill him in every other way: the rigidity of his legs, the hardening of his stare, and the full turn of his body away, to keep Greyback from seeing the pain that stains his face.

"Yeah. I know that." His words are pointed, and for the first time, he doesn't feel bad for them. If the elder's advice had only been words, maybe he'd be okay with that, but his advice had been more than words. They were an accusation, even though after every thought that filled him, he had chosen to be honest; he had chosen not to lie.

You can't always trust everyone, and Merrit couldn't help but feel that Greyback meant him.