Broken Boulder youngblood

although she had been absent, she had not been absent enough to miss her brother's deteriorating mental state.

but she didn't know what to do about it.  she was so caught up in her own that breaching anything else was dangerous lest it get turned back around on her; she'd become shattered, spitting daggers.

and she couldn't have that, not with him.  but she couldn't let it linger any longer between them, unspoken, so she creeps out beneath the moonlight to find her brother, their mother's soft but hysterical warnings ringing through her mind.