Blacktail Deer Plateau If I say something now, who gonna check me huh?

Barbed words with a well meaning behind them. At least he figured there was a good meaning hidden in there.

Last time I did that, she wedded me and then disappeared. In the same month. Bad political move. Now he felt like he had exposed too much maybe. Not that it really mattered. He had jumped aboard a sinking ship with Calida and paid the price for it.

Now he was here, following Ash along to her home. Which genuinely did feel like an honor.

He looked around the place for but a moment. Noted how she kept things, how she added the fur to her collection. It rumbled something within him. Warm and sparking.

It's nice here.