[SE] So many things I need to say to you

LIAM

Oh, I love it and I hate it at the same time
You and I drink the poison from the same vine

It had been a few days since the fyrhund incident, and Liam and Maea had spent them happily in their little cave - until, that is, Maea began to grow restless and terse. Liam had watched her grow increasingly tense as time went on, and when she finally grew tired of their meager rations of hardtack, cheese, and dried fruit and announced she was going on a hunt, he merely nodded and said, "Alright." Then he'd gathered up his things and followed her back out into The Climb.

Shii rode upon his shoulder a few steps behind Maea, who stalked over the ground like a creature possessed. The soldier kept close enough to guard her back, but gave her those few feet of distance, not wanting her to feel crowded when she was already so unsettled. They were hunting, apparently, for a Lial - vicious creatures not unlike crocodiles, Liam wasn't sure he was looking forward to this hunt. Not yet armed with an enchanted blade, and all too aware after the other day of his mortality, he was wary of any new entanglements they might face out here. But this was the task Dygra had set for Maea, and he wasn't about to let her do it without backup.

So follow he did, hazel eyes flickering over their surroundings, just in case something unforeseen came upon their backs.

Oh, I love it and I hate it at the same time
Hidin' all of our sins from the daylight