The Sunspire Every road they led you down felt so wrong

She brightened when he agreed, but it dampened some when he almost immediately backed it off.  She had brought it up more as a way to spend more time together, but she supposed she couldn't blame him for not having the time to spare.  She was just his kid sister who followed after him and didn't really do much important yet, not like he and Wraen did.  Why would he?

"Oh, okay. Yeah, I'll ask one of them."  She would, at some point.   For now, she slid into an awkward sort of silence before moving on and asking the question she had wanted to anyway.  "You okay?". He could think she was talking about the shoulder, but she wasn't... especially because she figured that was more of an excuse anyway.