Ball-caused couple's first argument

In theory, after dealing with Claudy, we were supposed to return to the forest… 

But the relatively long period of Fay's silence was starting to become an itch I could no longer handle. 

After showing all of the hints of being in heat before, she turned tame and restrained during the shockingly easy and straightforward negotiations. And now that we were walking down one of the empty alleys of the mercenary camp… 

I gulped my saliva down, unexpectedly scared of peering into the state of Fay's soul through our bond. 

"Now that I'm thinking about it, we will need to go back to the camp for the second round of negotiations, won't we?" 

Since I couldn't bring myself to sneak a glance at Fay's soul, I decided to try to soothe her mood in any way I could. And the prospect of bringing her all the way back to the forest, to where most of the mercenaries were currently held captive and where all of the wounded would be trying to get…