Blacktail Deer Plateau i need you right here by my side

He saw it coming, the retaliation - but he wasn't fast enough to protect himself from the attack. Teeth scraped his face, cutting the flesh along his eye and lid, blurring his vision as red seeped in from above. Did he lose that final eye, over this child? Fury fueled him further as he blindedly lunged where Cupid laid, teeth seeking to latch onto a face or neck. 

Cursed with his only eye blurred with blood, Rosencrantz was too worried to move closer, to defend until his vision cleared. He would not step on the child... he'd remain rooted to the spot and fend off the mother until his vision cleared.