Arrow Lake we are the ones who will never be broken

He seemed to sense her downtrodden thoughts and remained a silent rock for now—fortitude, safety. Reyson offered those things in his friendship, and Meadow was becoming more and more grateful for it. Somehow, in the few months she had been within Epoch, she had managed to break her own rule of keeping her distance from others and was quickly becoming close to more—surely, that meant that heartbreak and abandonment was around the corner.

She laughed softly at his words, casting him a smile of amusement. “I bet you do too,” she teased lightly, her tail giving a gentle sway through the air before she dug at one more as gingerly as possible. “But yes. From many standpoints, it is easier when the season has passed.”