"He is baiting us." Teiran gruffs, looking around for something more than the few droplets that linger on the ground.

"Or it's someone else." I mutter, focused on the way the blood seems different. Pinker, almost like paint from the store in shades lighter than blood red.

"Both of you are wrong," Kyra murmurs in thought, scooping up a leaf with some of it on it as she brings it closer to her nose and sniffs.

"And what makes you think that?" Teiran asks, walking over to her.

"There is fur in it," she explains, but he huffs in disagreement.

"The fur could have happened before or after the blood was here." He parries.

Kyra shrugs, her smooth locks falling over her shoulder and swinging toward her face as she looks carefully at what's in her hand.

"I suppose that could be true, too. But this blood smells like a deer.

"Then why is it pink?" He frowns and I grin. It feels nice to know a little more about this than others.

"It's from the lungs. It's more oxygenated and therefore looks more pink than red. Do you not hunt deer very often?"

Teiran looks at me with a blank stare, "We don't hunt our deer the same way you do."

"Right," I mumble, remembering he is a big ass dragon under that human skin. He probably doesn't have to chase and tackle, but does more swooping and swallowing.

"Are you sure it is a deer?" He asks, as Kyra stands and walks further from us.

We follow her, watching as she processes everything in her head, her eyes focused and her mind unable to hear anything we are saying now. Until she stops and places her hands on her hips.

"I am positive." She says, looking back at us and then nodding forward to where a dead deer hangs, partially butchered.

"Ezrah?" I ask, moving closer, looking at the jagged cuts closer.

"Most likely," Kyra says.

what he left." Teiran says, moving

already moving forward in her head, her eyes scanning the different ways Ezrah could have potentially gone. She moves forward, passing the deer and stepping into a tiny clearing where she places her hands on her hips and sucks in her bottom lip,

it feels somehow invasive to see her like this,

so much. It feels wrong to admire her for it and yet...her focus is adorable and her

else you two may find, then come back for me." Teiran says from behind me. "There is enough meat here that we can turn it into jerky and have supplies

ask him and he

on my own for a long time."

sure you know what you are doing? Because it looks to me like you are cutting that deer like a novice." I

cut." He says, looking mildly confused. "Now go before

behind. I follow it, weaving through trees until I see her. Her fingers touch various trees before

stuck on the thing as it darts around, before stopping and standing at the edge of the light that shines through

lower back to alert her to my presence.

her, only for there to be

tells me, her head tilting to

not."

scared." A

draws a cocky smile from me as I chuckle low

most certainly not when it is someone

feeling this will offend the wood fae. She steps forward, her blond hair reflecting the sun with flowers strung throughout it. Her cheeks are red with fury as she

She hisses. "That bastard did

a step closer. "Can you

know him?" The blonde elf narrows her eyes, her teeth grinding together. I can see the trees as they move,

are hunting him." I say, placing my hands up. "He is our

She

lycans..." Kyra says, confused, as she

there

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