[color=ed1c24] "Cedar, get the hell away from that bear! Stritzel is a traitor, and he is her ally! Aiding them is treason against the crown! If you do this, I-!"  

...

"Whatever you think you're doing, it's not worth it!"[/color]

Cedar looked down at his feet, then out at Ted, rampaging in the room beyond, then back down again.

[color=003471]"No matter what happens Cedar, know that you are a good person."[/color]


All at once, he just started bawling. 

[color=00a99d]"... Uh ain't doin' it fer fuckin.. [i]HER.[/i].."[/color] he sobbed, clutching his sister's tightly and hugging them for all he was worth, shivering and weak.  [color=00a99d]"...It were fer [i]HIM[/i]..."[/color]


It was at that time that Varya grabbed him, eliciting a repressed, almost instinctual, reaction. Teeth came out, and a fierce snarl, and before he could stop himself, the elf man's hand got bit-- HARD.

[color=00a99d]"DON' TOUCH ME!"[/color] he raged between sniffs, then incomprehensible babble, ending with [color=00a99d]"... At bitch... Touch'd me 'nuff."[/color]

Then looked back out again at Ted.

[color=00a99d]"....He dun even WAN be saved....  Fine... Kill 'im... It wut ya want... an uh caint stop ya. Take meh home. Dun wanna see no moar... Don wanna feel no moar..."[/color]