04-26-2019, 06:29 PM
He shook his head, "No. No pack. But I was raised by a troll. We didn't have the best table manners," he said, laughing.
Her warning that followed did put a hand to his stomach as though mentioning sickness was enough to induce a visceral reaction. He would do well to remember he was in fact a human man despite what repressed instincts were rising to the surface. The woods did that to him, and he had to wonder if the Nordic landscape was indeed what the Hidden One referenced. He was human, though. The sudden awareness was all the more pertinent when Sierra slipped meat through her lips, and Tristan's entire body fell to stillness, paralyzed by her motions. Human norms were already frayed in the wilderness, but was all he could do to restrain from chasing her scent closer.
He knelt at creek side and splashed much-needed water on his face.
Her warning that followed did put a hand to his stomach as though mentioning sickness was enough to induce a visceral reaction. He would do well to remember he was in fact a human man despite what repressed instincts were rising to the surface. The woods did that to him, and he had to wonder if the Nordic landscape was indeed what the Hidden One referenced. He was human, though. The sudden awareness was all the more pertinent when Sierra slipped meat through her lips, and Tristan's entire body fell to stillness, paralyzed by her motions. Human norms were already frayed in the wilderness, but was all he could do to restrain from chasing her scent closer.
He knelt at creek side and splashed much-needed water on his face.