Noctisardor Bypass the last few drops from the holy grail

What was he going to do?

He couldn't answer yet, the upstart was up again and starting shit, as they were wont to do.

Glaukos rumbled at him and snapped at the air in warning. If I hurt anyone it will be you. Sit. It was not a suggestion.

The tension wasn't going to abate; beyond that, Glaukos was offended by the presumptions they both held. He had not badly harmed the healer, the boy just had a weak constitution. The anger Glaukos felt for the interloper and for this obvious miscarriage of justice (letting the interloper speak let alone draw breath) did not carry over to any animus towards Heda in the moment.

They both seemed to think he was a beast. They both held fear of him, and while that could be put to use, Glaukos only felt the infringing nature of their judgement and had to swallow it. With some of his stoicism returning he states, I would never harm you Heda. I would never harm them.

A look, to her roundness, and then a glare to Anselm, but he is finally cowed. The insinuation by the pair of them has turned his stomach. Glaukos begins to withdraw in his staggered way, thinking then of Druid and her unborn.

I do everything to protect Rivenwood. The one we have and the one to come. He pauses with his back turned to them and with his shoulders bristling the soldier adds definitively, The healer stays. If I see that other boy on our land again, I will gift his hide to Druid's children.

Then he is striding away, stalking bear-like in the direction of Druid and her den. If nothing else Glaukos is a man of his word.