Wapun Meadow no gale can down this ship

he could tell the sienna she-wolf was still at edge; it was his own doing, and as cadeau worried her lower lip ingram looked away, scrounging for a way to recover their previous banter. "hey, you're not me -- so you'll remember just fine." self-depreciation was always funny, right?

finding he was running out of things encouraging to say, ingram did what any self-respecting man of avoidance did -- he changed the subject. "there's lots of puppies in diaspora." he commented, easing the topic to something a bit more palatable. "there's a pair of wolves that came with my.." he paused for a second, realizing he had no formal word for blodreina; fuck it, he'll call her what he hoped she was -- "girlfriend. though, i haven't seen their dad around recently." he hadn't known "berx" very well, and since his last interaction with aurewen (which had mortified him, frankly) ingram had been staying way more clear than was probably necessary. he didn't want to be confused for "berx" again, or give aurewen false hope her beau was back. "they have two kids, a boy and a girl. then stigmata, the guy i told you about -- he has four, three boys and one girl. boy, are they ever a handful. i hope mine are as strong as them."