Chapter 555: 557: Stranger

Damon was feeling guilty, really he was. While he was a deplorable person most of the time, he was still someone who felt guilty far too easily.

Looking at things objectively, she hadn't really done anything wrong to him. She didn't kill his stag.

He was acting reckless and bold because he didn't want to give himself any free time or the mental headspace to accept that he had just massacred his whole village. If he stopped for a moment, the guilt would catch up to him.