Heron Lake Plateau who's saying nothing about as loud as she can.

In spite of how awful she felt about how sad her son looked, she couldn't help but smile a bit as he responded. She had always appreciated his totally bizarre vocabulary (and often wondered where on earth he had learned it). She was usually good at figuring out what he meant - at least, she thought she was. She wasn't all the time, as evidenced by...

"I'm getting by," she answered with a smile, "I probably need to stop by and see Raven so she can harass me about taking it easier and not overdoing it and blah blah blah." It would make her feel better, she was sure. But she wasn't here for that, really. "How about you. You been up to much?"