Hushed Willows Back where I belong

She saw the way her mention of their birthplace affected him and felt a jolt of guilt. She moved nearer to Pippin, wishing desperately that she could say or do something to reassure him, make him feel better, get him to smile and speak. But they couldn't go home. Their family lived here now. They belonged to the Keep these days; they were Marauders, as ill-fitting as that title was for the Ostrega family of five.

The urge to alleviate her brother's pain grew and grew, prompting Spur to suddenly whisper, "We'll go back, someday. You and me and Silas. And mommy and daddy too." Because surely Mordecai would come back. And certainly their parents missed Lost Creek Hollow as badly as their children did? Larkspur could be wrong but she didn't think so. Otherwise, why had they all left? "We'll go back home." The thought had never crossed her mind until just now and she'd brought it up to help Pippin, but she found herself clinging tightly to it too.