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As he'd expected, the pup very quickly calmed when the cradle of his arms came to her, and she was soon passed out from blood loss. Heaving a sigh, the Patriarch turned a piercing eye on them both, at first wholly ignoring their bites and complaints altogether. "You idiots," he hissed, those his voice broke. "A parent's job had to be done." It was true: trying to fix a screaming, helpless child wailing for her father would have been a nightmare. Now that she'd been calmed, however, preparations would go far more smoothly. The scarred male held a distrusting, though sympathetic eye on Miriette, as if silently, politely requesting some sort of temporary forgiveness. There was no time for distemper and family feuds now.
As he'd expected, the pup very quickly calmed when the cradle of his arms came to her, and she was soon passed out from blood loss. Heaving a sigh, the Patriarch turned a piercing eye on them both, at first wholly ignoring their bites and complaints altogether. "You idiots," he hissed, those his voice broke. "A parent's job had to be done." It was true: trying to fix a screaming, helpless child wailing for her father would have been a nightmare. Now that she'd been calmed, however, preparations would go far more smoothly. The scarred male held a distrusting, though sympathetic eye on Miriette, as if silently, politely requesting some sort of temporary forgiveness. There was no time for distemper and family feuds now.
He dropped to his knee and slowly, tenderly laid the pup to the ground in his good arm, then looked assertively at the stranger and nodded his head. "Do what you must," he said simply, masking the heartbreak at seeing a child -- his child? -- in such grueling pain. The man dropped his eye back to Addison and sighed, clearly awaiting some sort of direction from the two women who declared their knowledge on medicine and the healing arts to be better than his.