Ravensblood Forest What's A Guy to Do When Nothings Standing Still for You?

a silence spread out between them, one astara was woefully accustomed to. as the male tilted his head sideways, likely to get a better read of her, astara did the same, parroting his movement with little expression to be had across her features.

she could not tell yet if he was on edge. from scent alone it was abundantly clear a pack resided here, but astara did not recognize any of the scents that happened to flit along the forest floor. (vercingetorix's might have been there, but astara would yet connect two and two with the ill-fated boy and his father).

to put her comrade at ease, astara's ears lost their tension and she glanced away -- yet the ball was in tobias' court now whether he would continue to press for answers, or simply chase her away.