We could not see them, of course, but the whole air was full of creaking. He flexed his claws and gnashed his teeth.
She no longer cried as freely as she had at their first meeting, and he rather wished she would, for now her misery just sat upon her and would not depart. Hardo lashed his thigh with his stick. She knew she even had to pretend she was unaware of the future scrutiny.