Heron Lake Plateau i could tell you that i saw you, but i couldn't make it up the stairs

colt's question had not been intrusive, but caiaphas felt she would rather not think back to the events that had transpired around finding herself in blondine's company. even still, there was a bitter taste in her mouth thinking of the ordeal her family had suffered -- and the losses she had endured.

three children, one mate -- she quickly snuffed out their occupancy in her thoughts, extinguishing their remembered faces like wisps of candleflame smoke. shifting on her thin limbs, she looked somewhere between the two of them. "found her near a meadow. we were traveling from easthollow." it wasn't much of a contribution, but it might satiate colt's curiosity -- and hopefully, keep him from asking her any further questions that delved too deep into the repressed and painful memories caiaphas had taken such great care to avoid.