"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.

least we can salvage what he left." Teiran says, moving closer and proceeding to process the

passing the deer and stepping into a tiny clearing where she places her hands on her hips and sucks in her bottom lip,

beneath her, but it feels somehow invasive to see her like this, in a way I have never known

loves so much. It

for me." Teiran says from behind me. "There is enough meat here that we can turn

sure?" I ask him and he snorts

for a long time." He responds and

you are cutting that deer like a novice." I wince

He says, looking mildly confused.

Kyra was moments before, but now there is nothing but a hint of her scent left behind. I follow it, weaving through trees until I see

side. My eyes stuck on the

her to my presence. She shakes her head out of a daze, then blinks at

to her, only for there to be a chuckle

tells me, her head

not."

scared." A feminine

me as I chuckle low in my

when it is someone of your kind." I tell her, which makes

fae. She steps forward, her blond

hisses. "That bastard did

closer. "Can

elf narrows her eyes, her teeth grinding together. I

I say, placing my hands up. "He is our enemy and the reason the war

war?" She blinks.

Kyra says,

there are so

more of them. Which will slow us down and likely mean injuries in some way for all of us. "Well, in the past year, I have. And just in the last three days I saw a huge group and then a little bit

killed the deer go?" Kyra

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