"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 closer and

She moves forward, passing the deer and stepping into a tiny clearing where

but it feels somehow invasive to see her like this, in

knew, the version he helped to shape, and that she loves so much.

else you two may find, then come back for me." Teiran says from behind me. "There is enough meat here that we can

him

been out here on my own for a long time." He responds

me like you are cutting that deer

it is cut." He says,

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

My eyes stuck on the thing as it darts

her, my hand sliding up her lower back to alert her to my presence. She shakes her head out of a daze,

her, only for there to be a chuckle that echoes

not Ezrah." She tells me, her head

it's not." I

A feminine voice

cocky smile from me as

certainly not when it is someone of your kind." I tell her,

offend the wood fae. She steps forward, her blond hair reflecting the sun with flowers strung throughout it. Her cheeks are

hisses. "That bastard did it, so

taking a step closer. "Can

grinding together. I can see the trees as

hands up. "He is our enemy and the reason the war

war?" She

Kyra says, confused, as she slides a weird look

why there are so many

down and likely mean injuries in some way for all of us. "Well, in the past year, I have. And just in the

who killed the deer go?" Kyra asks, moving back

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