Nova Peak umwerben

can be a read only or a two post thread! <3

he had gone out and pondered all @Wylla had thrown into the face of him;
undeserving.
deserved;
he hung her words upon the houndstooth collar of himself and returned with herbs for his pharmacopia, and things beyond. a sprig of spruce just turning to green. a rounded rock that glittered upon one edge and was studded with obsidian. a curled strip of fragrant cedar holding pale feathers — things for the place where she lay her head.
these he left near the flat stone where phaedra had once lolloped as a fat, round pup, feeling foolish for his boyish gifts, for he still did not understand.
and yet mahler would try.
a pheasant with its naked breast ready for her teeth the next day, and in the nights he settled beneath the umber bole of a spreading oak, near to the woman's slumbering self but not so near as to appear uninvited.
if she allowed his touch, he gave it; in the interim, the gargoyle began with these small, perhaps nonsense gifts, until each day when he found himself upon patrol, he returned with something new to lie alongside the grey surface.