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“It’s a full moon, so he’s off to—” He waved his hand, but Bellamy saw the strain in his features “To feed Or whatever your kind calls it”
“Feed?” Bella precisely what he hinted at Or instinctually Still, he asked for clarification “Whatever do you mean?”
“You know exactly,” Oscar blurted, a hint of frustration in his expression “The fascinating wolf stuff you’re apparently ignoring”
“And you think feeding is fascinating? Hunting dohatever it is he’s hunting down is so
“How else do you expect wolves to eat?” he scoffed as if fully on board with believing in the fantastical creatures he loved to e when Miss Celestine served us pheasant or any other sort of ?”
Bellamy had always loved the cook’s dishes, but now the idea of eating anything at all, let alone i for it, made him nauseated
“He’s out there somewhere” Oscar moved toward the“We’re close to the wheat fields and the woods beyond I suspect that’s why he chose this room, on the outskirts of town So he could have space to…” Suddenly Oscar shivered as if finally letting his iination run wild
“You’re afraid of him,” Bellamy said “Or what he represents”
“Not exactly I’ve…never iined someone with that sort of raer Of course, we’ve heard stories of beasts and healers and dark ic, but I never had the opportunity to see it up close It’s fascinating, and I would guess intuitive during a full moon”
“How long did he say he’d be gone?”
“All night” He glanced at Bellaaze “He didn’t want you to be alone He thought you could use a friendly face”
“And he assuiven me away, could help with that? What a preposterous idea”
Oscar’s eyes greide, his cheeks streaked red Bellamy had never known Oscar to be aand humor, so what he’d said to Oscar must’ve cut deep
He felt guilty Almost
He was angry, and perhaps he shouldn’t have been if he was going to die Perhaps he should make amends Wasn’t that what people did? He didn’t want Oscar to reel froret the rest of his life, but could anyone blaainst his own free will And who knehat other danger would come their way?