Stone Circle she keeps it simple

Day still felt the familiar punch-to-the-gut that Amber's name always invoked, but maybe he was getting past that. Maybe it was just Adeline's voice. He didn't know, but he was surprised when his only reaction to the name was a flicker of his ears and an irrepressable grimace.

"She left," he replied. (Like you, he wanted to say, but he didn't. It wasn't the same.) Day licked his lips, wondering if he should expand on that, but like always, he didn't really want to talk about Amber. "I don't like to think of you out here alone," he hedged, turning his body toward home. "C'mon - it's only gonna get colder."