Moonspear And, then, there was light

"Oh," was all she could think to say in response, wanting to question about his family but not wanting to overstep any boundaries. Perhaps his family was like her own and a bit hard to talk about. Dash was the only one here who knew of her rather rough childhood and Heldi preferred to keep it that way. 

The agouti had begun to grow drowsy and carrying on the conversation grew increasingly harder as her eyelids grew heavier. Heldi shuffled, giving a content sigh as she closed her eyes. Only resting them, not sleeping, she told herself.