this is the reckoning
Not much, he laughed through the bond, a deep rumble as he shook his head and several feathers dwindled down to the ground. If she wants to make things official, she can come see me at the guild sometime. There she’d be able to root around and discover things for herself – the massive library, the bounties on the wall, the layers and lacquer that had gone into the building and organization.
When she said nothing more about protection, he figured it’d either hit a nerve or deliberated with comprehension. Regardless, he said nothing more on the subject. Both of them had enough paths and roads traversed to understand the juxtapositions of protection and sacrifice.
Besides, there were birds to annoy.
He gave another singular arch of his hellhound brow before the acceptance came – and he snorted, plumes of air filtering through his nostrils, and then he was on the move. Still clutching the fowl tight in his jaws, his long strides swept down the well-trodden path, and then through a cluster of trees, a tight-knit grove, sleek, swift, and fast, perhaps to see how venturous the wolf was feeling.
When she said nothing more about protection, he figured it’d either hit a nerve or deliberated with comprehension. Regardless, he said nothing more on the subject. Both of them had enough paths and roads traversed to understand the juxtapositions of protection and sacrifice.
Besides, there were birds to annoy.
He gave another singular arch of his hellhound brow before the acceptance came – and he snorted, plumes of air filtering through his nostrils, and then he was on the move. Still clutching the fowl tight in his jaws, his long strides swept down the well-trodden path, and then through a cluster of trees, a tight-knit grove, sleek, swift, and fast, perhaps to see how venturous the wolf was feeling.
DEIMOS
