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He informed her that his parents were no longer alive, which caused Bones's ears to flatten and her eyes to lose some of their luster. She brightened again when Atticus went on to describe them in enough detail that she was able to paint a mental picture of them. Since he hadn't described them physically (save for his mention of Mo's eyes, which won a tail wag from Bones), she pictured them all wrong, not that she knew it.

"I followed me heart," she answered honestly. "Tortuga's not far from here," she added. In a way, Atticus had actually come to her, not the other way around. She couldn't know that, though, as she was unaware that Atticus had lived elsewhere prior to joining ranks with Blacktail Deer Plateau. In fact, she exclaimed, "We weren't very far apart this whole time!" even as the thought struck her. Her expression was one of mixed happiness and sadness over this perceived fact and she forgot to ask her own question.