Dawnlark Plains move like grey skies

he confirmed what she knew, though the addition of the latter name brought forth hope lanced with a bolt of fear. "avianna?" skraeling was a name familiar but with no bonds attached to it; she let it slide from her thoughts, for now. fear turned quickly now to dread, for in naming only the living Sunny left out the dead, and there was no way in hell Avianna would leave behind her only daughter, for any reason.

it made the last decision a little easier, though not as easy as it would have been if Sunny had not asked his question immidiately after. "no." soft, but firm. she did not allow much silence in which he could offer a rebutal. "I am much to blame for all that's happened. until I can find peace with that, I will stay away, but I will not leave." brief pause, and then, "I never did find any of them." she knew that the deaths were many, the vanished many more.