Sea Lion Shores i want a hot dog real bad

He continues and she stares at something else. Every time she catches a glimpse of his gaze, she feels like she’s looking at something she shouldn’t be. She misses the dumb, oblivious Artaax that was her friend before she left but… this is hardly the same guy. The same kid. He’s been hit by the world as she has after losing a parent.

Mallaidh doesn’t know what Heda will do in regards to Wildfire and now both daughters. Maybe if she’d been around Blixen a little more since her return, she might have a clue, but her avoidance of it leaves her blind.

“I don’t know. Not a very good one,” she says, licking her lips. She tries to imagine her mother ever leaving her and she can’t even start to fathom it. Her mother died looking for her and her brother, the same woman can’t be seen abandoning them willingly. “It gets better, though. It doesn’t ever… really go away but it gets better.” It’s the best she can offer, closing her eyes and fighting off her own hurt.