Sun Mote Copse Time and time again

Sugar knew about the latest news, including the uncertain fate of the grove, though she didn't feel directly impacted by it. She didn't personally know anyone there, aside from her brief acquaintance with @Figment, and the honest truth was that she couldn't bring herself to feel sad about @Elfie. She hoped both of them were all right, of course, but she didn't spend her days dwelling on it.

Rather, she immersed herself in her studies. In doing so, she scarcely noticed that she became a bit of a loner, spending most of her time on her own. Her parents and @Avery sometimes accompanied her, though most often, Sugar kept to herself and her plants. She still tended to the graves, taking fresh flowers to them when she thought of it, and keeping it to herself when she discovered that the recent flood had unearthed a very macabre and skeletal paw. Sugar wasn't sure whose it was, though she studied it for about an hour before finally and very carefully reburying it.

Today, she found herself searching for someone for the first time in days. It wasn't @Elwood, @Finley, nor Avery or her brothers. It was someone she had never met. Sugar had heard the rumor about her blind relative recently joining them in the copse. She naturally wanted to seek out Fennec, not only because she wanted to meet her but also because she was immensely curious about her condition. Not only did Sugar sympathize to an extent (her black eyes were unduly sensitive) but she was also curious as to whether there might be a plant out there that could heal her relative's affliction...

It wasn't difficult to locate the slightly older girl, whose phenotype immediately reminded her of the long missing @Nellie. Sugar paused and tilted her head, wondering where @Bronco's sister had gone for a brief moment, before blinking her dark eyes and parting her lips to call out softly, "Hey, Fen?" She took a few steps closer. "I'm Sugar, your cousin. One of them, anyhow."