Dragonheart Core - Chapter 111: Welcomed Souls

... He was back?

I continued to stare at him. Look, I know I was normally more eloquent, but the situation was beyond eloquence.

My juvenile lunar cave bear—juvenile no longer, lunar cave bear no longer, what had happened to him—had just strolled through my mountain entrance without so much as a warning, slotting back into the shadows he'd come from like he'd never left. Much changed, of course—he'd lost an eye and an ear, the injuries healed over in scabby, patchy twists of skin and ...