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Rose’s silence brings her gaze back up, watching her chew the marrow. The hurt in her face doesn’t sit well with her and she glances down, unable to take it. A ringing in her ears causes them to fall back and she takes a few steading breaths to try and keep the world from spinning. One paw moves to brace herself and as the other starts to take care of the wound, Mallaidh winces. She does not complain about how much it hurts, knowing she deserves it, and more, for what she’s done.
 
“I didn’t mean to. Really,” she starts, pausing. “I ran into Blixen and then her mom showed up—her mom doesn’t really like me—and, well, I ran away from them.” It’s stupid, hearing it later, but it still had been what she needed and that isn’t something she knows how to explain. “I didn’t mean to run so far from Drageda that I didn’t come back, but at some point I blacked out and I guess I hit a tree or… something. I had a wound on my head that was bleeding when I woke up. I had no idea where I was,” she adds. It isn’t the conversation she wants to have but it keeps her from talking about Roarke, for now.