"I'm glad to help in any way I can." Smiling back, he glanced forward again, saw hoofprints in the dirt that he assumed were his own. After all, he'd gone through here before, and he could remember this stretch of trees. It was as good an indicator as any, and he'd found his way back by his own steps more than once in the past.
When she spoke of her family, it caused a slow and potent anger to begin to build inside of him, but he didn't comment. While he could see the injustice and the cruelty, and wish that no one ever had to live as she said - in the shadows - to hide from their own family, it wasn't his place to scold her or speak ill of them while she was so shaken up. In the end, family was still family, and he was a relative stranger. The best thing he could do for her would be to get her home and see that her wounds were tended to.
Ducking under a branch, he held it up with his neck, allowing her to pass through without bothering with it. The fields opened up before them, long, rolling stretches of grass, and in the distance, a couple of teepees with similar designs could be seen. From the way the flap on one was opened and set back, he knew the two legger was home.
Good.
Nodding, he said, "That's the teepee with the two legger I mentioned. She'll help tend your wounds, and I'll stay right beside you."
When she spoke of her family, it caused a slow and potent anger to begin to build inside of him, but he didn't comment. While he could see the injustice and the cruelty, and wish that no one ever had to live as she said - in the shadows - to hide from their own family, it wasn't his place to scold her or speak ill of them while she was so shaken up. In the end, family was still family, and he was a relative stranger. The best thing he could do for her would be to get her home and see that her wounds were tended to.
Ducking under a branch, he held it up with his neck, allowing her to pass through without bothering with it. The fields opened up before them, long, rolling stretches of grass, and in the distance, a couple of teepees with similar designs could be seen. From the way the flap on one was opened and set back, he knew the two legger was home.
Good.
Nodding, he said, "That's the teepee with the two legger I mentioned. She'll help tend your wounds, and I'll stay right beside you."
