tell the wolves i'm home
Another man approached and Jace's cold green gaze turned to him as well. Perhaps he too would notice his strangeness, just as the Warden had - the touch of the Eirachi was no stranger to those who made the tundra their home after all. "Jace Launceleyn." he said, voice far too soft for the seriousness of the claim. A season ago he had been but a toddler. Now he stood a grown man, striking a near perfect resemblance of both his mother and father if one cared to notice.
But his attention was reclaimed by the woman, whose shock was expected. If only she knew just how utterly anticlimactic Zariah's death was - not that he would ever tell the real story. Carefully he lifted the bundle on his shoulder off and onto the snowy ground. With deft fingers he untied the ropes that kept the tarp bound together, and once unfolded none other than Zariah laid there. Her skin showed signs of frostbite, but the injuries from her fall - the broken bones and gashes on her back - made clear the fate she met. "I found her in a cave. It seems some rocks fell and broke some ice over a ravine and she fell." he said, straightforward and unemotional. Accidents like this happened all the time in Halo. No one was safe from them at the end of the day.
But his attention was reclaimed by the woman, whose shock was expected. If only she knew just how utterly anticlimactic Zariah's death was - not that he would ever tell the real story. Carefully he lifted the bundle on his shoulder off and onto the snowy ground. With deft fingers he untied the ropes that kept the tarp bound together, and once unfolded none other than Zariah laid there. Her skin showed signs of frostbite, but the injuries from her fall - the broken bones and gashes on her back - made clear the fate she met. "I found her in a cave. It seems some rocks fell and broke some ice over a ravine and she fell." he said, straightforward and unemotional. Accidents like this happened all the time in Halo. No one was safe from them at the end of the day.
JACE
