Heron Lake Plateau spare dad

S'all fine and stuff, she said.  Unable to really think of something that'd be out of the ordinary.  Of course their mom was fine.  And of course being teen-ish of age she was totally gonna be all wordy and descriptive... Yeah, no.  Dredging a few extra words out of her was hard if she didn't want to share them.

But stuff kept moving right along, as conversations did.  And she was certainly old enough to brush off advice if she didn't want it.  No tricking her into believing something silly!  Nah. He's definitely weird, she piped up with certainty.  There was no way Owen was anything but weird.

And then Eljay kept talking and sort of killed whatever progress she'd made guilt-tripping her bro.  Eh?  What?  She was more confused as to why he'd want to than anything else.  Then again, the fact that Wildfire had like a billion kids from the sound of it and Eljay didn't thus he was totally way younger, right?

Okay, combine that with the fact she probably still didn't have any interest in kids at this point and her only real experience dealing with boys close to her own age was her brother (ew, of course), she didn't see really why anyone would want to be anything but a free spirit.  Rest assured, if he told them stories, she was most into the ones that were about grand adventures than any others.  But then you gotta like.. stay.  Which was totally also a gripe she had about her own parents -- she wanted adventure!  Not to be told outside was kinda dangerous at times and stuff wasn't as cool as stories.  Why would he give up being able to go on adventures whenever?  Just about everyone had been all over the place but her.