Broken Antler Fen A cup of tea, please

Pfft - you wish! She chuckled, clearly joking. She needed to clear her head, and one way to do that was with sassy remarks. She felt kind of relieved now the whole story had been summed up - as if a huge weight had lifted itself off of her unsteady shoulders and now landed on the young man. The confusion was clear to see, and she could understand. Burke had not been the best man out there, and neither had she been a good woman, but together they had changed a lot.

It was not a matter of popularity that got us kicked out. As I said; it all happened in a huge famine that affected the whole of Teekon. Plus, I didn't have the best reputation - Moonlit Hills was kind of like an enemy of the brotherhood and it all happened too fast for anyone to get a grasp on things. They saw it as a betrayal on Burke's side, I believe. She explained shortly. Of course she didn't tell why Moonlit Hills and the Brotherhood had not been the best of pals, and she left out the whole ordeal with Nemesis too. Even Meldresi she did not mention; she did not want to speak ill about the dead.

Of course he loves me. Trust me; he would've left me and the pups a long time ago if he didn't. I'm quite unbearable. She joked once again.