Ravensblood Forest It's been too long

It's been months since she's seen her family. Lia had never entertained the idea that some of them might follow after her just as she had followed after Arturo's example. 

Family was important to not only the Ceannasach but to almost every other family in Quicksilver Hollow. The Raurc family is no different. Neasa had always emphasized the importance of family; the family name is all that lives on.

Perhaps it was for this reason that she was accepted so readily by her mother and half-siblings. Lia is a Raurc, if only half of one.

Despite the half-Raurc's unquestionable loyalty and admiration for Neasa, it could never be said that she was particularly motherly. Mother was not a coddling type. Rather, Lia had been expected to uphold the Raurc name with all the sophistication that Neasa had carried it, alongside all of her half-siblings, which did not bode well for sniveling pups who could not leave their mother's shadow.

It is with much confusion that she heads for the borders upon hearing her name. The colleen has never considered that Neasa might leave the Hollow and the clan she holds dominion over, let alone her other children. In passing, Lia has not recognized her own mother's voice.

The doyenne weaves amongst the bloody forest, nearly stuttering to a halt as the one who called comes into view. She pauses for half a beat before regaining her composure and padding towards her mother. 

"Neasa," she says by way of greeting, much the way Arturo had first addressed her on these same borders. 

"Why are you here?" Lia's voice is confused, surprised. At first thought she conjures a horrible imagery of the Hollow and her family destroyed by some natural catastrophe.