Blackfeather Woods shambles

His next question immediately tempted Wildfire to break her silence. She even opened her mouth, only to remember herself and clap it shut. She turned away from him and curled into a ball, closing her eyes. The memories from that day surfaced, playing like a movie on the back of her eyelids. Was this all really overdue retribution for the way she'd beaten him back then? But hadn't he commanded her to do it?

She was always trying to make sense out of nonsense here. Wildfire consciously told herself to stop it, curling more tightly into a ball and veritably squeezing her eyes shut, doing her damnedest to close herself off to the outside world.