Moonsong Glacier [m] going toe to toe with an enchantress

val got the sense something in aventus had shut off. a flip, powering down. he could understand it. it wasn’t easy talking about loss, and he supposed for someone who thought their family was everything, the loss of one’s mother was a grief more profound than anything val would ever know.

he looked down at the ground, an ear turned towards aventus. he didn’t believe his encounter made him better, and he sure as hell had the fear of god (or bears) handily hammered into him, but he wasn’t about to argue. while aventus peered at the stars, val looked to the veins in the stone. i think my encounter just gave me a mortal fear of bears. like if i see one again, i might shit myself and run. the attempted levity was followed by a small smile. you don’t, like, live with bears right?