Bearclaw Valley [M] they breathe you in, and dive as deep as they can

when he came up, they were locked together. and they were not alone, for the blackbird had brought with her the small spectators. merrick frowned at this, for a moment ignoring the riotous clash of obsidian for where the red girl and dark boy found themselves.
he nodded to @Averna, slipping around her to roughly nudge his lover's brood some feet away, toward their pale relative. she was family to the bruin-tooth, in some way, though merrick did not know how.
he would not interfere; he skulked into a sit to watch the outcome of the scene, ready to observe whatever winner might come from this.