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"Yeah," Alya agreed with a wag of her tail, glancing over her shoulder to admire her mother's domain. "One day, my sisters and I want to claim our own mountain. My mother says that all the women in our family were queens of mountains," the girl explained, feeling unusually candid. Although she rarely stopped talking, it was not often that she was willing to share the things she held closest to her heart with anyone other than her sisters, and occassionally her parents.

"I didn't step foot on flat ground until I was almost grown," she revealed, smiling at the memory of that first outing with her father. "I was so disoriented by how... how flat everything was." This teased a giggle out of the dark girl - another oddity. Though she laughed, she rarely stood for laughter directed at herself. There was something very freeing about Nikai's presence. Somehow, she felt she knew he wouldn't judge her too poorly for silly things like that.