[ Thankfully Justice is fine, though when Korol comes to check on her she makes a pitiful noise, and settles close to him. She's worried about her companion, and it shows in the way her tail flicks back and forth anxiously. Her attention is mostly on him, no offence intended to the other bahari.

Why are you angry? It's a good question. Barnaby isn't angry at Sturmhond - in fact, he will in hindsight become embarrassed that he has lost his cool in such a way. It's the end result of months of stress, months of trying to ignore this. To let it go, in the hopes that his feelings will be irrelevant in the end. Being forced to confront it wasn't what he had hoped for.

In the end it probably isn't a bad thing, but it won't be pretty either. ]

He has a wife. In addition, we couldn't be in a worse position for something of this nature. It isn't about Kotetsu himself.

[ What's making him so angry isn't even that Kotetsu doesn't, and will never, return his feelings. But falling for him at a time such as this couldn't be worse. Thankfully, his tone is starting to return to normal, the only hint of his previous outburst being that his fists are clenched, his nails digging into his palms. ]