Neverwinter Forest and i wish i’d known that you were bleeding while i sat and watched you reading

he settled the burnt glint of his single eye upon the witch, searching her tone for the displeasure
indra's displeasure
once shown his shadow.
"she is all i have," merrick declared with the ferocity of the very young, teeth clicking upon air as he turned toward caiaphas the misguided anger encouraged by his own wound. "what will you do now?" the pair of them were too injured to hunt the wilderness for the bastard's daughter, and now the yearling pair had left the nightwalkers due to merrick's wild trajectory. 
astara returned, capturing him; merrick reached toward her with a low sound of contentment despite the throb of wolf-torn flesh.