Moonspear Kiss me quick

As soon as Charon said the first several words, Wildfire wanted to slap herself upside the forehead. He had mentioned his dead father at their first meeting in that burnt forest. She felt bad for forgetting, though he didn't seem to hold it against her. It didn't seem like a particularly painful topic for him to discuss, though she noticed the hurt expression when he mentioned his brother, Levi. That didn't bode well, though Wildfire did not interrupt. She let him finish, the information settling into her brain.

"Sorry for your losses," she said, ears splaying slightly. He had lost his biological parents, his adoptive father and his blood brother, by the sound of it. "I'm glad you have Floki... and Thistle. So she's his mother? And she's here? That's good," she observed with a flick of her black tail. "Sounds like you've been through a lot of rough stuff but never let it get you down," she added, admiration in her tone.

The boys hadn't left their parents by choice then; death had separated them from all but one. But they were doing well for themselves. It put everything into perspective for the young girl. If she decided to come here in the end, she would leave her parents alive and well at the caldera. And it wasn't even that far away. They could still meet up occasionally in the neutral territories between here and there. She filed this thought away in a cabinet at the back of her mind.