Honeyed Pasture the stars at night are indifferent to our plight

edit bc i suck at reading... cameo

portia, who is normally very upbeat and chatty, is silent more of the trip, holding tightly to her bundle of herbs. @Hux had offered to carry the other one, which portia greatly appreciated (since it meant she didn't have to personally bug anyone herself), and since dio was focused on more formal matters, she chose to hang back around hux. and she has no problem with him, of course, but she's suddenly lost for any kind of word. 

all she could think about were her children. sirio and dalia hung back, and while she was sure that they were being taken care of... she still worried. what if something happened while she was away? what if someone stole them? wildfire had gone missing... and it would so much easier to still naive sirio, or tiny little dalia. 

oh how she worried.

so she remained quiet for most of the trip. and later, she hung back at the campsite to watch over the younger parties. they made her even more anxious for her children back home. but she was doing her job, serving her pack and her commander-- and all would be just as it was when she left the territory when she returned.