Noctisardor Bypass [raid] gunpowder meddling

seguing this into laurel's thread! <3 feel free to post a last time or fade!

indra's not dead
merrick did not stop to puzzle this out. the boy's voice rang out high and desperate for the aid of a woman who had left him to die. the bearwolf eyed the throat of the child; it would be easy.
instead he followed upon the heels of the poor redleaf babe, snapping, laughing, driving the boy along like a beacon for his very own aunt laurel.