Whitebark Stream this banana bread has walnuts

"I wasn't expecting to see you either!" exclaimed the yearling. She chuckled as Luke pounced out of the stream and closed the distance, and she received his affection with a friendly nudge to the underside of his chin. So much had happened since she'd last seen Luke that she didn't really know where to begin. A lot of it was stuff her friend probably didn't want to hear, especially the bit about Sebastian. While Luke might've outwardly supported Saena, she had to remind herself that he was acquaintances with her father. No matter how much of a puppet Peregrine had become, she didn't imagine Luke would like the strife.

So instead she chose to focus on happy things. The first thing to cross her mind was Reek and their little tryst, but she didn't think Luke wanted to hear about that, either. It was private and it was adultery. Seeing as all the recent details of her life were quite messy in one way or another, she opted to step into the stream, inviting him with a gesture to return to it if he wished. "The Rise is doing well!" she told him, and then asked, "did your pack ever get off the ground?"