Blackbeak Bluff You can run from the pain, or you can allow it to burn into your heart

she shook her head at his question, shrugging. she fell somewhere between Sia's realism and Tom's optimism; she knew that not everything turned out the way it ought to, but she tried to keep her spirits high, regardless. truthfully, Tahani hadn't much thought of not finding Shivali; in the wake of fleeing home, the search was her primary focus. they would find her. that was what kept her going.

"i don't know. we'll figure it out," Tahani said absently, eyes drifting to the horizon. they could go anywhere they wanted, at this point. if the search for Shiv was abandoned, she'd like to head north, but in a different direction--far from her tyrannical father. the south was not to her liking; the only reason she was here was because of Shivali.