Ravensblood Forest The whispered promise

She rubbed on trees, marking it with her scent as they wandered the borders. He was quiet for a moment and Isley was nervous, wondering what he thought of everything that had happened in her life. She didn't know where her siblings were or what had happened with them. She hadn't gone home either, to consider what her life might have been like. "Would you want children, even? " Isley asked curiously. "I haven't considered it myself. We.... We have time if we wanted to consider it, but... I'm wondering."  

Iskey felt tiny, then, even more so than normal. It was a lot to consider and she wondered what Palisander might think - maybe he wanted children, or maybe he hoped for children with someone else.