Walk It Out

ELRETH

"What the hell was that?" she asked several minutes later when they were walking along the trail back to the Tree City alone. "What are you even doing here? I thought you had to stay with your mom?"

"She woke up long enough to tell me to go and… I had already been thinking that I can't handle this the way I handled it last time because it didn't work. So I was going to go looking for you anyway and…" Aaryn stalked along next to her, his arm tense and rippling with the tension in him. "What were you doing sparring with Tarkyn?"