Jade Fern Grove you are alive and are dying

they had similar thoughts but alternate motives. the girl is contrite as she reacts to her information, and hosannah smiles kindly. it is the kind of expression one might imagine upon a mother's face as they look upon a scorned child; there there, the expression says, everything is alright.

i would appreciate the company, she comments in regard to the girl's question, but then modifies the message slightly. however, i feel we are both of better use to aaron if we are apart. i will walk with you — perhaps just for a while? — but in this desperate time, you would serve him better on the hunt for something of sustenance. and the sooner the girl returned to whichever duty she had been distracted away from, the better. hosannah did not have the patience to keep this charade going for long. so caught up is the seer in her manipulation, she fails to introduce herself.