Silver Creek Ain’t no mountain high enough

Laika sympathetic reaction was normal, nothing unusal, but she easily fell into her friends embrace.  "I miss them."  She whispered quietly to no one in paticular.  Although the pain was not as bad as it once was, sometimes she found herself wishing the Hazel, Marlin and Jaycee had all survived and that she had been the one to perish.

She closed her eyes.  "The Father... Zander," she spat out her old mates name like it was a curse, "he left before they were born.  He just didn't want to be a Father I guess.  It's one of the name reasons, next to how he betrayed Saena why Reek drives me insane."  Spring informed her friend in a steady, yet slightly angry voice.