Herbalists' Cache perjury and defamation

It took a ridiculously long time on Valiant's part to recognize who he was talking to. He was doing a very good job of not looking too hard at the other man, just in case — but that well, well, well captured his attetion easily enough, and when Brave said Val he had just made the connection.

"What are you doing out here?" he nearly shouted, swinging to face the other male more fully and bounding forward to greet his cousin danger-close. "It's been a couple months, huh? You're huge!"

He didn't realize how much they'd both filled out since they'd last seen each other — only that Brave was near unrecognizable when he looked anywhere but his face.

"Is anyone else out this way?" he asked, half hoping, half dreading. "Nothing — nothing happened, right? Everyone still alright?"