~ where innocences burn in flames.
She has awoke something in him, he can feel it wriggle its way free. It seethes and wreathes beneath his smoky hide and Björn revels in the power that he feels course in his veins. He can feel the strength and beneath it all is the all consuming rage that he has buried deep for so long. He has tried to hide away from it like a coward and push it deeper in his soul. But it had not died... no it had smoldered and festered like that of a sliver beneath the skin. It oozes now, like the infection it was.
It brought him an eery pleasure to feel her crest between his teeth and to feel her flesh tear with the clench of his teeth. As he realeases her from his grip and retreats, he can feel it still seethe beneath his hide. It craves to feel her flesh between his teeth once again and it takes every ounce of resolve to stop from lunging at her. Her words venomously fill the space between them and his eyes narrow as she continues to scream at him.
"I didn't ask you to go and risk everything we have!" he spits with venom on his tongue. He would of never asked her to do such a thing. She had taken it upon herself and now blames him for the loss of their son. He jerks his crown away from her, his narrow glacial eyes trace the lines of the shore before finally bringing them to her once more.
I did it to keep Warsaw from your doors. To stay here with you.
His ears lace against the muscle and sinew of his arched neck. "You risked your life for naught... the Lagoon... Cullen... came here regardless of you going to fight and stand in my place," they have no honor, he growls silently to himself. He huffs an exasperated sigh.
Then finally his last words sink into her head as the realization floods over her. Why were you gone? Why weren't you here with him? He draws in a breath.
"Elvira snuck off to the Forest to bring her mother back to the Ridge and Lily went shortly after," he pauses as his frigid glacial find her dark smoldering eyes. "I went to bring them back... I was attacked by Raider, my brother and finally Ruger," he pauses. "I fought him but I was defeated and he then took Lily with him."
He does not drop his crown in shame, but lifts it higher onto his muscular shoulders as he eye her. He waits for the truth to shine a light on this mess that they all find themselves in.