DON'T KNOW WHERE I'M GOING / return

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my thoughts were so loud i couldn't hear my mouth

The one he'd come back for approached, and he stares as the male pads closer, moving his own body faster as he spots him. He reaches out to the other as he's pulled closer, wrapping one paw around the other's leg and keeping it there even as he pulls away. His eyes close for a moment in his grasp, head lifting now. He takes in the other's presence, a comfort he'd not felt in a while now, and for a second he's afraid when he opens his eyes, it'll go away. There's things he thinks of saying, but ultimately settles for the quiet. There was nothing that really needed to be said. They both understood.

He remains quiet as his father explains the situation in greater detail, looking to the ground as he spoke, thinking to himself. He isn't sure how to respond at first. What the next move would be for him, or the members of Tanglewood, he didn't know. And he didn't know if he would like it even if he asked. "Why are they doing this?" he asks softly - almost a rhetoric, but if an answer existed, he would like to hear it. What was the goal? He hesitates, looking to his paws. This wasn't something they'd just sit by and let happen. They weren't captives, only marginalized. And he had a choice now, on what he decided to do. No one was forcing him to try and be anything but himself, and quietly, he decides, maybe he should decide to be someone who helps. Decide to be brave. Just long enough. It was tempting, now that he was back, to fall back into his safety net, a comfortable bubble that need not be poked. But, that was why he'd gone in the first place. He needed to break out of it himself. He needed to be here, and be brave, just enough. "What should I do to help?" he asks this more specifically to Aurum, not that he didn't think the female could offer good advice, he'd only just met her after all, but he trusts his father, and his father knows Roy's limits as well.

And maybe, after all, they could find a peaceful way to end the conflict. Maybe they could find a compromise, somehow. If he just learned a little more.