’ That in itself was unusual, and both Venn and Edge could see the confusion simmering to anger under the still exterior of Talon. ‘The villagers...took Clove back to town to heal. They say she left the same day, she should have been back in Phoenix before we left,’ they watched his muscles bunch and Talons hands shake as he took in the words. ‘She could be anywhere now, or with any clan,’ Venn refrained from asking if something could have made her a runaway keeping to the idea to himself and. I told her - her, not Elisa - about Oona, about how she was growing and what she was doing. I forced myself to touch her hand, since it didn’t really feel like touching another human anymore. It hadn’t felt like that for some time. Still, I squeezed it gently for a moment before pulling my hand away and looking at her. Something in that shell of a human still reminded me of the woman I had once married, but it was like a fading image.“You know that she’s not there anymore, don’t you?”Miss. ‘Spill or I won’t stop.’ A few minutes of getting tackled by him and I couldn’t take any more of it. ‘Okay okay. Just stop.’ ‘Alright, now spill.’ ‘Your scent- it keeps me up at night.’ ‘You sayin’ I stink?’ He appeared puzzled. ‘Nuh,’ I groaned. ‘Your scent keeps me up because I… ‘ ‘You’re mumbling to yourself. I can’t understand what you’re saying.’ ‘I said, that it keeps me up at night because it makes me wanna do stuff… to you.’ I said meekly. ‘So, my manly scent keeps you up all night?’. There was a little updating since she didn't have the landline number at the house -- Dave hadn't known it the last time he'd talked to her -- but with that done, there seemed to be little left to do. All of a sudden, he was standing outside the schoolhouse door, with no idea of what to do next.There were things that needed to be done, of course -- but considerably less than if Emily and Liz had not done so much to get things set up for him. He really wasn't quite mentally ready to tie into the.