Overture Downs why because you dance like a wounded giraffe.

His answer wasn't enough to help it makes any sense to her. With a bite of that awful feeling she'd always had in her stomach back at Moonspear, she remembered that moment she'd asked Hydra if Gannet would be allowed to leave if he wanted to, and she'd said to ask Charon. It wasn't up to her. None of this made sense. None of what had happened at Moonspear made any sense at all. The ugly scar across her muzzle that Charon had given her twinged in agreement.

"Well, I'm glad for you anyway," Liffey said, shaking her head, "Are you going back to them now?" She almost didn't ask, mostly because she didn't want to know the answer. She loved her friend desperately, but on this one point only was she unable to understand him at all.