Stone Circle mutually assured destruction

It'd been a long and tiring journey, and so, Vi looked on the borders with a very real feeling of relief, of homecoming. Even though she still couldn't smell Phiipa at all. At least she'd found one lost little lamb, though she'd been a little too late to keep her entirely intact.

"Buck up, Ke," Vi whispers (she'd long ago decided that "Kenai" was not the girl's proper name, but she could not remember her real on, and Keoni and no way to tell her), seeing the girl's discomfort. But she doesn't have any more buoying words than that; she's tired, and worry and disappointment are welling up in her heart. Where was her family?