Firefly Ravine waiting on the world to change

Somehow, she really hadn't. The question caught Blackbear by surprise, and the truth was almost shocked out of her for this reason alone. Likely, her expression of wretched guilt and deep spiritual pain would not be missed by the other yearling, but she kept her answer as short and detatched as she possibly could.

"My dad died while I was gone, so I don't really have a place there anymore," she explained, with only the tinest tremor in her voice. "So I've been... exploring."

Yeah, that was a good word for it. It sounded a lot better than wandering or moping and much less fatalistic than telling people she was trying to find herself. "What's at Sunspire?" she asked, hoping to change the subject back to something less painful.