she looks up , at long last , at his voice .
when snow was just a young maiden , he’d taken her to the woods to tear out her heart and serve it to her stepmother . of course , rather than do so - instead he’d warned her and had her flee - but still the image of him haunts her . the image of what might’ve been . still , he’d survived the queen . that , to chariya , is the biggest shock of all . she’d wept over his actions - believing he’d sacrificed himself to see her safe , but it would seem she’d wept over nothing .
she should trust him , she should . above all else , she is sure he means her no harm . but still . . “ what . . . what is it ? ”
------HE UNDERSTOOD HER apprehension. if he were a vicious man he might revel in it, but the complexity of the huntsman had always lay with his asocial tendencies. once upon a time he'd been raised by a mother that kept him purposely sheltered from the world (to protect him from a card reading he knew nothing of, as it turned out). his icy cold demeanor was nothing more than a result of the sheltered life he'd led ---quite simply, the huntsman didn't know how to be a chatty creature. it was much easier to while away his time with animals he'd either befriended or hunted.
so why had he spared snow white? he wasn't a monster. he'd never been on board with the idea of murdering a human (lest they threatened him, and he spoke very little of that one particular scuffle), and at least when he hunted his game it was for a purpose. when he'd discovered that the queen's target was nothing more than a woman ---barely a woman, nearly a child, he was disgusted. of course he spared her. but it had not been enough to spare him the title of VILLAIN, apparently.
---so he understood her apprehension. if he were in her place, he'd be apprehensive, too. still ---he wondered what swift vengeance would be eventually wrought upon him. (until then he'd spoil his cat and make his little figurines). " commission. well, sample of. the mayor wants me to make something for them. there's a wood sample in there. once it's okayed ... i can make what they want. " nothing interesting. just work ... for what that was, now.