Bearclaw Valley you can't know what i mean by what i say

it was both reassuring and not, he supposed. skoll would be near, but he would be alone. merrick pondered it a long moment, and then nodded. "you're right." whatever became of these tiny things, it did not change the fate of ursus. nor the purpose he had engendered for it.
"maybe it won't be so bad," merrick tried, though the words rang hollow in his mouth, bitter.