waits by the door until you return and pay attention to your wife.
❝ Aw, lass, you needn’t dawdle by the door! Y'know, I saw the most darling stick off the road—-put you right proper in my thoughts, it did. ❞
While the jest fell immediately at the sight of his greatest treasure, his beloved, obvious joy etched along travel-weary features. Hair sat in an unkempt knot to the side of a handsome smile. A few strands had escaped their messy confines, instead deciding to sway with his fast approaching person. Although he’d since bathed while away from the Ratways, under the tangy pull of apple and fragrant edge of pine, that damnable Skeever mark persisted. He’d considered donning finer garb for his return, but considering the several warrants out for his arrest, decided against pulling anymore attention to his already high-profile. So, he stood there, bathed in shadows and dressed in murk, grinning like a cat who’d finally nabbed the canary.









