Bearclaw Valley Completely Zoned Out

"in the end, the only one who cares about you is yourself, skoll," merrick uttered lightly. but the storytelling had exhausted him, plucked out the good humour and strong faith from his words.
in its wake, bitterness, sorrow; he turned a half-muzzy gleam back to the warrior. "that is the story of easthollow, and that is why being part of ursus means being bound to how i feel for them. they are in direct opposition to us. they are enemy."
a flagrantly devilish thought: sending his grown children to fetch that stone-circle crown for themselves, to swell the blood of ursus until it was a devouring torrent.