Dragoncrest Cliffs be your own 3 am

 "oh,", blix says, and then, "oh, arlo," an exhalation of mourning. she'd not known arlo well - unlike her brothers, she'd not spent time with him really, but - he had always been there in her life, a solid presence. and now he was gone. and now she could never get to know him. 

she steels her shoulders. arlo's death puts her mother's disappearance in a new light - her other deepest fear. but she can't bring herself to think about it now, so instead she refocuses on furi, eyes suddenly intense. "hey, do you wanna play a game or something?" the girl asks -- an abrupt change of pace and a fairly obvious attempt to distract herself from something - but, maybe furi needs a distraction too, she hopes.