Blacktail Deer Plateau we are in a state of flux

Because I love you.
 
Everything inside Mallaidh freezes from her blood to her bones and every thought has come to a halt. After all this, it is because Blixen loves her. After everything she’s put her through, it is somehow still there. Finally, her eyes trail away and she stares at the ground, her stomach churning as she tries to come up with something else to say.
 
But then Blixen opens her mouth again and her brows knit together, feeling a heat rise in her chest she struggles to bite back. “I ran away, remember,” she snaps hard enough to surprise herself, eyes widening a little. She shakes her head and sighs, trying to shake it off and steel herself. “I didn’t want to leave, but you’re mom… and you!” she blurts though she’s attempted to ignore everything that happened but Saarthal’s encouraged her to dig back into her past and well, apparently that meant quite literally.
 
“You don’t love me,” she says, this time quietly and her gaze averted, “you don’t even know me.”