Flycatcher Downs Love without complications galore

it would have been hard to miss the bitter pall that tinged wraen's words, and indra sat a moment on their utterance, giving weight first to the query wraen proposed to her. she had not gone to easthollow, and a shameful stir of her ears betrayed it. "no -- that's xan's family, they know him and... i think they would have come if they saw lucas. but i should have.." it was an oversight; indra had searched far, but she had not searched close to home.

her first mistake.

she picked her way down the slight incline, avoiding the tumbling rocks with a frown. "what was that about the two leaders? do they not like you?" indra found such a proposition unlikely, but had not forgotten the sharpness of wraen's words then, and wished to know more as they traveled.