Grim snarled slightly. "Well Briar will have to pay for what he did. I don't care if it gets me chained up, muzzled, sedated or whatever. Briar will not get away with that safely," Grim said, annoyed. Max hugged Grim gently and buried his face in Grim's chest.

Briar opened his visible pure white eye and sat up. He sighed and stared at the cut vines that decorated his right arm. "They actually learned from my past," he said softly.