Sun Mote Copse you stay on my mind

Wraen saw confusion cast a shadow on Eljay's mournful expression and she both held her breath and crossed her fingers (if she were able to do that) in foreboding. Don't crash, don't crash, don't crash... She repeated inside her head the same way a parent does, when they let their kid drive them for the first time. In her case - if Eljay was to go in his usual embarrassed mode, she would be in a limbo. With all due respect for Wildfire's advice on being patient (ve-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-ry patient) with her life-long friend and mate, she would not know, how to deal with him right here in front of his parents' house. Explaining to Finley, why her grown-up son was brought to a meltdown was something she did not wish to do either today or ever.

Even with this paragraph long banter inside her head and the actual moment lasting for only a split of second, Eljay did not crash, he did not even stutter. Apparently Wraen had hid a jackpot, when she had offered him to do something he was an expert at. "Would you be ready to go right now?" she set a trap, because with kids asleep and another adult (hopefully either of the grandparents were taking a nap with them), Eljay could not say "no". "It's just around the corner, it won't take long at all."