Ouroboros Spine The big lake they call Gitche Gumee

While Keyni set aside his apologies, he didn't fight it. He understood, he wouldn't want them either, but something needed said and he had to start somewhere. However, more came faces came to join them, the gathering growing and all softening his worries when he saw them--and he mustered a small return of a nudge for Meerkat, thankful. Even if their numbers were startlingly few, and markedly absent of many of his brethren, it was something. He had to hold fast to that, he told himself. He had to pull it together for them.. though it already felt odd beneath their attentions now, knowing that so much rode on his shoulders, and he had only barely pulled himself through.

Even still, felt the eyes of the stranger of a watchman in particular even as Kukutux went to formally grant them her hospitality. Antares might've felt more off about it were he better rested, but fact of the matter was that this was the most secure possibility he had faced in days; he dipped his muzzle first, and Bronco filled the space first, helping to further shield Antares from what seemed inevitable. Yes.. thanks, he added towards his pale-furred aunt, but ultimately, he was more fond of the momentum that had been set into motion: towards rest, and getting him reacquainted with the interests of the remaining fireflies. He had an inkling as to what his heart wanted, but it did also bank on what was best for those he led now. Being here now allowed him to see more, but it was no answer yet.

So he eased to his feet properly and nodded to disguise the strange sway he felt in his neck. We can always stay on the edge of things.. rest there. the Ostrega managed in a tired drawl, thinking to being stationary again. Recover Bronco had said, and he felt like that was some tall wall to scale for some reason. He would decide the fate of what rested on him then, hopefully, if he still had to. There was a lot to consider once more but they were not as scattered as they had been now. Recover, he reminded himself. That first.