The road to Slaugh had gotten much worse to the point that they had to go on foot. The weather was terrible, the environment was perilous but most of all, the quiet and tension between Thane and Nera was incomparable to the difficult terrain.
After what happened, they did not speak, they did not look at each other and most definitely they did not touch. They were like magnets that bounced away from each other if they got too close.
Thane couldn’t stand the quiet. He didn’t think silence could be so painful and loud.
It went on for a few more days, hiking up the mountainous region in silence and setting camp with even less sound. Thane was beginning to forget what the sound of his voice sounded like, much less Nera’s.
He knew it was his fault, he allowed for it to happen and lose cont
