With Torin in control again, empowered and emboldened by Askel's consent, Zariah knew it would be futile to fight it.
'Torin... the last time we put our mark on someone...' Zariah reasoned with her wolf, trailing off at the awful memories of the wrong choices she had made with Caedmon Grey.
It was not that Zariah did not wish to mark Askel, it was only that she could still not shake off the terrors that haunted her from the past, even if she had just decided she would no longer live in the past.
Zariah had hoped she would have some time to collect her feelings and figure out the way forward at least, but with Torin's arrival, Zariah feared there would be no such consideration.
Unlike Zariah, Torin was primal and instinctual, despite what had happened in the past and Torin's next words made that clear.
