The smile Oracle tried to manage, well, it didn't fool him. Tired or not, Galahad had spent the majority of his wakeful hours of his life with her. He knew her almost as well as he knew himself, or at least, so he hoped. But their distance from each other lately had put so much strain on the brute. He was terribly worried about Oracle, so terribly worried. Was she eating enough? Hell she wasn't sleeping enough. Of course he wasn't either though. He would shake his head, managing a small, weak smile. "It's alright, I understand, Oracle. But, well, we can't carry on like this."
For a moment she would lean against him, both sitting in silence, and then the question would come. One that would catch him off guard, and, well, confuse him. Galahad would blink, looking at her with questioning eyes. "Of course I do." Once she got the answer she would move away. He would lower his ears, her next words starting to sting. What... what was she saying? What was she getting at? The brute would give a soft whine, watching as Oracle began pacing. She would speak, and start crying, and as much as he wanted to move towards her to brush away those tears he felt frozen, heart aching. What was she trying to get at? She would mention Odette... continuing to explain.
As much as he wanted to be a family again, to have the three of them together, the thought of Oracle going alone was out of the question. She had been scared to tell him... but had she disappeared without doing so he would have been crushed. "Oracle..." His head and heart were swimming with mixed emotions. He knew asking her not to go at all was out of the question... and he would go with her too. Even if she didn't want him to. But they were in no condition to go anywhere right now, and she had to understand that.
"Oracle, I love you dearly, but there is no way at all I'm letting you leave right now. If you have to go, find, but I'm going with you, and its not going to be until we're well recovered from the states were are in, have a good meal in, and are in fit traveling condition." His tone was completely serious, a trait he had developed as he aged. He wasn't going to risk losing her with her going alone... though he had an idea why she wanted to. "I'll follow at a bit of a distance, but I'll still be close enough so if you run into any trouble you can call for me right away."
It was starting to get harder to breath... and the weird stuff that was falling from the sky was settling on them. His eyes were starting to hurt too, and Galahad was getting the feeling that whatever it was it wasn't good. "Lets go to my den... well, our den. You've been sleeping alone but I made sure it was big enough for both of us. I don't know what this stuff is, but its not snow, and I'm getting the feeling we shouldn't be out in it... Its starting to hurt to breath... and I think its making my eyes hurt too." He would rise, looking to Oracle in hopes that she would follow, before heading to the den. They could continue talking once they were inside.
"Speech"
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