(SE) in too deep to go back again

SUNJATA

the flood

but is this what you want? what you wanted?
do you need love? am i enough for you?

“Cows?” He questions with a surprise bout of laughter reaching him. “What’s so interesting about cows?” The horns, in his opinion, were one thing. Not even something interesting enough to think about longer than what a cow could provide – food, milk, cheese. Of course, you could get that from goats as well. So he nods his head instead, tilting his head a small amount as he considers her. “I don’t have a cow shift, but I do have a horned shift.” He explains, partially shifting to reveal those horns that curl around his head as he regards her once more.

But then the subject of the blight takes over, and the horns remain, his gaze lingering on Delta as she speaks of how he’d gotten it. And his stomach churns with the memory of it, the things he’d done, and his gaze narrows on her briefly. “Probably got it when my ex-wife bit me while she had it.” He offers, reaching up with his empty hand to point to a bite mark in his shoulder – quite human teeth imprints seen before his hand falls below the water again. “Someone named Arduinna cured us all. She pulled it all into herself and became a statue in the Greatwood that contains it now.” He shrugs, though his insides still seem to quiver with the recollection.

in time you'll find i've got my baggage too