Caedes had been drifting around the camp like a ghost. For all their bulk and heavy shape, the white and red leant itself to a kind of naturally spooky nature. Trying to get things tidy at the least; packing away, cleaning, reducing, attempting to be... useful, whilst they could do little else but wait for time to past. They were afraid, yes. The hunger itched in their throat. They wanted to hunt, kill. They knew that sleep... sleep would lower the barriers.
Yet he grew more exhausted, night by night. So when Zahari spoke, so quiet, they drifted nearer; tail waved behind him, eyes heavy. Drawn in towards the promise of something soft, something kind. Gods, he was... tired.
"Do not worry about me." he murmured, even as he paused, next to the cleric, "I... shall be fine."