Hideaway Strath the sweet escape is always laced with a familiar taste of poison

Mallaidh mutters something underneath her breath when Arturo speaks to her. It is not necessarily intentional to shy away from him so much as Lotte’s fur blocks her words. The girl closes her eyes and tucks herself further into her mother’s chest. She simply wants to go back home and go to sleep, shedding the memories of the day and leaving them behind. Slowly, she uncurls her narrow form and, keeping closer to her mother than her father, the three of them make their way back to the rendezvous site.