Otatso Wetlands 40 nights to sit and listen to that midnight train to memphis

Alya (pointedly) did not mention that she had a sort of standing invitation to visit Easthollow, and probably stay there for a time if she needed to. While she was uncomfortable accepting aid (read: charity) from Morningside, she at least did not have the sort of baggage with them as she did with Easthollow. She'd been the last one to see their son alive, after all, and there were some questions they might ask that she just wasn't ready to answer.

"Thank you," she said again, but she had no intention of being escorted anywhere once she had four functioning legs. She found his willingness to help her incredibly suspicious. Even if he had no ulterior motives, it was unequivocally strange. Alya herself had never lifted a toe to help another out of the goodness of her heart. Probably because her heart was filled with tartatian spawn rather than goodness. "I will, of course, do my best to repay your kindness," she commented, the last word stressed as if to elucidate that she was not fooled by the good old boy act.