Dragoncrest Cliffs be your own 3 am

 the silence stretches on a moment uncomfortably, and the ginger resists the urge to squirm. it's a bed of her own making - she wouldn't really blame furi for not wanting to talk to her anymore, but then furi talks and -

"a dead body..?" she repeats, eyes going wide. for a moment she panicks, thinking it must have been her mother. but she knows they didn't find her and even if by some weird circumstance furi had seen her mother's dead body and lied about it to the adults she probably would've mentioned it by now. probably? still. she doesn't know about arlo's death, having tuned out pretty much everything after 'mother is still gone.' a sinking feeling takes over her now. "was it someone you knew?" blix asks instead, selfishly hoping the answer is yes, that her people are okay.