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As much as she wanted, hoped, he’d say something supportive, he doesn’t. That’s stupid. She sighs and looks away, shrugging it off, but she looks up with a quick snap when he speaks so poorly of his mother.

Mallaidh doesn’t have much of an opinion of Wildfire to feel anything but indifference about her departure, she’s capable of feeling something for her friends when they’re hurting. Artaax’s pain is apparent but he shoves his mother off anyway. The pain of losing a parent never really goes away, she’s come to realize but she’s lost two in drastically different ways. Her mother is dead. She’ll never really get to be with her again. The ghost of her voice remains in her head most days. And her father? He’s alive. She could find him but she doesn’t want to, even if it hurts. She can’t imagine what they’re going through.

”I’m sorry,” she says, wishing to find a way to make him feel better. Nothing ever works. But maybe she can relate her pain to him. ”A little while before I left, um, I found out my mom was dead. I know it’s not really the same but...” she trails off, of course, awkwardly.