Wapun Meadow clemency for the wizard king

he would have accepted nothing, though once she continues, he remembers the way she'd sighed, the sadness that seems to haunt the edges of her expression. "i'm happy to be with you, too," he says automatically, laughing a little as she speeds up to keep pace with him before slowing down to match her, instead. "how was it, being with dad? you gotta tell me everything," he says, hoping to expand a little on everything. he doesn't, after all, know what she's been up to, what it's been like at the hollow -- but he wants to.