The weeping that came from Tawny confused Pripyat, but it distracted him from the lingering thoughts of Arye, or rather the lack of Arye. Whether she wept over the woman she had hardly known or over her own wounds Pripyat did not care, he merely felt the empathy that had once been so common place to him. In Phoenix Valley he had been a prince, longing to roam the lands and do good. Vanquish evil. Yet Jefferson and Noah and Geneva and Jace and all the adults had stayed him, kept him glued to lands he both loved and loathed. And then Arye had come and all the knightly ideas he had once held dear to had dissipated. Nothing had mattered but the golden lady of the sea, and now that she was gone nothing seemed to matter anymore.
Yet at the sound of Tawny's sorrow he felt a familiar tug, and almost he reached out to touch the scarred girl. For a long moment his hand lay suspended in the air, uncertain if it should reach out or withdraw and finally after a very long silent moment it dropped to his side. When the ash colored lady finally spoke he was surprised at how gruff his voice sounded, almost as if it were his father speaking through him. "Who hurt you?" and like his father he knew that it was his duty to right this wrong, because Jefferson wouldn't have let harm befall his own pack and Pripyat was not worthy if he was anything less than what he father was, or had been once in the very least.
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