Lost Creek Hollow It doesn't compare

ingram watches as her ears lay back atop her skull at his correction; and though the dragonfang is aware that he should feel some sort of remorse for speaking in such a harsh tone with his daughter: he does not.

he tries to resurrect some sort of empathy from within but comes back up with nothing but smoke that slips from betwixt the fingers.

so he speaks no further on the matter.

she asks next what he's doing, and though his knee-jerk reaction is to tell her the truth: he was heading to patrol, he bites it back ... knowing she will want to tag along — and the borders were no place for a young cub.

taking you back to your mother. he tells her instead in a resolute rumble.