Lost Creek Hollow yeh you've had enough

taltos.
as terance's features lit with a delight that illuminated the handsome cast of his face, mona's own seemed to pale, her eyes widening in a shock that caused her to trip forward. catching herself with a low exclamation, the girl whirled back to him, unable to walk while she looked at terance with a new regard.
born at donnelaith. his father had know her own. terance ... terance had seen the forest before it fell to ash and to ruin. tears inexplicable sprang to the corners of mona's eyes; she sniffed them back impatiently and offered a wavering smile, one that faded when he made mention of a woman that was decidedly not the woman who had bore her and cortland.
"rowan ... rowan mayfair was my mother. i think she was kicked out of donnelaith. i was born to her and casmir, along with my brother, cortland. we were raised to believe casmir was our father, but —" the scarlet bird rolled her shoulders with a sigh. "he is my older brother."
she searched terance's eyes with her own, perhaps for a moment longer than was proper, before she remembered herself and averted her gaze with more respect. "i ... i want to hear everything," came a shy voice mona scarcely recognized as her own. "what was donnelaith like?"