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Blixen reaches her and she waves her tail over her spine. When she’s close enough, she draws her in and nuzzles against her daughter in return. It had been a long time without the three of them and she knows it’ll happen again, sooner than she wants. “She’s… okay,” she says though she isn’t entirely sure how to answer. Okay is the best she can come up with in the moment and it doesn’t feel right, but neither does “good” or “bad.” “She’s getting stronger but she has a long road ahead of her. She can’t make the trip in this weather,” she says, skirting around the fact Wildfire decided to stay home, regardless of her condition.

As far as what’s going to happen, Thuringwethil wishes she has a better answer. For now, she sticks to the topic of Wildfire. “She promised to return at the end of winter,” she says, lowering her nose to press it in the space between her eyes. “She misses you.”

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