Emberflame Ridge there's no turning back now

It seems to lift her spirits a little, for she seems to swell within the idea that there might be more out there after all.  But then she turns upon him (or at least in the shadow of his lie this is what it feels like) and his cheeks burn as he does not know how to answer his question.  Once more he is given the option to come clean, and once more he refuses to take it.

It's just, if 'Leu and Okeanos didn't make it — he stops himself as a shiver quakes down his spine.  There just has to be more that makes a wolf.