Greatwater Lake Sawyer, you're going out a youngster

Although Wildfire was very uncomfortable and wanted to extricate herself from this encounter, she wasn't rude. When Saena spoke again, she stopped and slowly turned her head to face her. She listened to the yearling's parting words. Although she apologized, it seemed clear that Saena wanted to impress upon Wildfire that her parents were some kind of wicked. She had succeeded somewhat, having shaken the youth and instilled in her a need to question her parents to get more details.

"Okay." It was all she said before they mutually departed, trotting in opposite directions. Wildfire felt a little sick as she looped around the lake, now ignorant to the beautiful scenery. If Saena's story was true and her parents had done these awful things, yet had turned around and proved to be wonderful to their younger litter, then what had her half-sister hoped to accomplish by telling her this? Was she trying to spread discord and tear apart another family? Although she hadn't attacked her physically, Wildfire felt like she had been assaulted emotionally.

With each step away from Saena and toward home, the whole thing felt unfair all around. Wildfire felt tears well up and wobble on her lower eyelids, yet she quickly blinked them away. She just wanted to get back home, then decide how to handle the poison Saena had placed in her hands.