Moonspear I scorn their hatred, if they do but fear me

She listened to Charon, holding quiet and still as she learned a bit about her proud leader and the things that had become of him, shaped him. She realized the depth of his emotion too, as he recounted that near death was not as painful as personal loss. "Love hurts," the teenager sighed lamely, her own tidal wave of feelings subdued for the moment. She gave her head a shake to clear away the negative thoughts, and she began to pluck the bird once more to distract herself.

Though initially she thought Wildfire was being stupidly selfish, she also couldn't imagine her trial, and she couldn't fault a reaction that was different than her own would have been. Ness could no more expect someone to be like her than anyone could of her being like them. After a while she sighed. "Everything's easy until it's not, huh?" she smiled thoughtfully at her winter twin, and nudged him. "This'll pass. And she'll come visit one day... and you're either gonna be too happy to see her to care about what happened, or still feel sore about it. We'll just have to see, right."