Noctisardor Bypass gaps in a strange dream

The man looked as ill-prepared as any boy might when faced with danger. Glaukos was glad he had that effect on him, when usually he ignored how imposing he could appear, now he would wield himself as the weapon he had been trained into becoming.

The wildman bristled and squared-off to the healer, his tail giving a single lash before settling high and still. The women need a healer. Glaukos states this knowing that the man had just come from them, and the way he has placed himself is indication enough that Etienne would have to fight to leave - and it would be a fight he would not walk away from fully intact if he tried. There was no choice here.

Glaukos paces forward one heavy step, then two, and rumbles a warning deep in his chest. You go nowhere but back to them.