Angelis picked a piece of raw meat from the dinner he was preparing and tossed toward the hawk, whom was looking none too pleased to be so wrapped in his cloak. It started at the sudden motion and took a defensive posture. At least, as much a defensive posture as it could take with its wings bound against its body. So it did its best to tcuk its head in and open its mouth threateningly, squawking at him in warning. "Yeah, yeah, just eat." Angelis, for all of his nuances, was actually quite good at caring for animals. He knew better than to feed the bird by hand, as it would learn the hands were a source of food. And that was a sure way to get some nasty injuries. If he was going to have to nurse the bird back to health, he didn't want to deal with any unnecessary bites.<br/><br/>Hearing some stirring behind him, he turned to see the silver haired beauty stirring from her rest. "Oh, you're awake. Good." He still wasn't sure how to go about explaining himself, but he was most certainly going to do his best to ease her worries. "You should know, before anything else... I have absolutely no intention of harming you. But, before you ask..." Angelis picked at the meat and threw some seasonings in the pot of stew hanging over the fire, trying to choose his words. But there was no easy or pretty way of saying what he needed to say. "I cannot and will not let you go. You are mine now." The words coming out of his mouth were alien to him... like the person speaking wasn't anyone he had ever met in his life. Yet, he could not deny the truth in those words.<br/><br/>"I'm sorry it had to be this way, but I think it was easiest this way." Angelis couldn't bring himself to look at her again, his form silhouetted against the fire. "I've... never done anything like this before... and honestly, I can't even tell you why I did it. I just know that... when I saw you laying there, I felt this<em>compulsion</em>. I...<em>had</em>to have you... I had to keep you away from everyone else. I know you were the source of that... explosion of power. But that is all I know of you. Other than the fact that I... have to keep you and protect you." This was all the good parts of what he had thought and felt. It would not have helped had he told her that everything in him had intended some rather darker things for her.