Wild Berry Meadow foreign creature; gift is a burden

She had not been. Her mother had been absent much of the time, noncommittal and unreliable, and the Cordiva siblings had been glad when she'd vanished, truthfully. But that was not something you said to a stranger, no, and thus she merely gave a small noise of noncommital agreement. "and are you an angel?"  She asked, the slightest glint in her gaze as she paused a moment before offering her own reply. "you can call me Helia." She said with a dip of her head, crossing her front limbs over as she regarding him with the slightest cant of her head.