Dawnlark Plains please tell me more about your doubt

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she was silent until her brother shared the news from Undersea; she ought to have expected him to go there. "grayling." the word was soft in her maw, tender, the only outward sign of the bittersweetness the news elicited. she was glad for her aunt, yet all the same, she could not ignore the whispered, angry voices that reminded her of the death of that fledgingly longing for the same with Adi. her fault, all of it, and her auds flickered back as she teetered on the fine line between sadness and joy.