Larksong Grotto hearts in atlantis

everything had fallen into a mess, and for that, vuk blamed the red priestess who had burned them all with her fire. had it not been for reek, the girl would have persuaded terich to leave -- and yet she did not want to go. seff was loved here, tended here. had it not been for the larksong wolves, he would have surely perished, and herself too. 

the patchwork girl was beset by confusion and grief, and at once she went off to collect her wandering @Seff. the child's antics always lifted her spirits, and her mother's heart wished to be near him now.