Whitefish River flares like a supernova

praimfaya's ears taper back as she fights to regain control of her usually mild temper, surprise ebbing away the last of the burn until it is nothing but smoldering coals once more at the bump of dacio's muzzle against her shoulder; a gesture that she recognizes as one of support. she cannot explain to dacio why dragomir and isi matter so much to her other than that they are bloodkru and beyond that they were her first friends in diaspora — and besides stag, likely her only friends and then they'd been torn from her by their mother; and now they've slipped off her radar again except this time verx was dead and last praimfaya had heard: aure was missing and the rusalkan crone had some weird fixation with isi.

she knows she cannot sacrifice roangeda for them: roankru must come first but she thinks she is perfectly capable of striking a proper balance. perhaps even, she thinks, she could send one of her wolves out to scout around more indepth for signs of kaistleoki. maybe they wouldn't have gone far, she thinks hopefully, as she follows along after dacio as he suggests they keep moving. or maybe they went far away from this place. she couldn't say for sure. maybe. comes her slightly despondent response.

unrelated to kaistleoki's new whereabouts but ...verx had asked dad and i if we'd seen aure when we went to tell him that mom had died...i guess aure'd gone to moonspear or something. he'd seemed pretty worried about her. praimfaya recalls to dacio as she peers around at the swampy landscape, stepping around a felled tree, peering over it to dacio. do you think he might've went looking for her when he was killed? of course this doesn't particularly help them in the search for kaistleoki, isi and dragomir but she hasn't forgotten his murder nor the conversation with the rusalkan crone pinning the easthollow wolves as his murderers.