There is nothing left when he looks. Just white lines that match the bite marks and the claw marks. The scars she has told him of and just - took for granted surviving. Never wanted him to think anything else of it, of her. Other than her love of him. That when she said she would never leave his side - she meant it.

"Not now... I'll explain everything - later. Go to the children... I will deal with... them."

It hurts more than the wound, to have to do this now, to unwind her arms around him. Because whoever it was that had attacked them must have seen that - and she dares not risk it. She had kept this secret too long and too well and Duv was too powerful for it to come out this way.