Emberflame Ridge there's no turning back now

Imagining the soft-hearted bear keeping company with the blushing rose made Ibis smile, though she still wished desperately for her family to reunite, her worries ebbed a little. It was a good fantasy to keep her mind off the more realistic possibilities. Wherever Okeanos and Eleuthera were, it was better to think of them as together and whole, even, dare she think it, happy] — with or without the siblings who missed them.

As Seamus went on to explain what he'd seen, every little bit of description brought Ibis' imagination to focus; she thought of how desolate a place must be to have nothing for miles and miles, but also how grand it would feel to stand in the middle of such an expanse. She thought of the lake were she'd met Pirrup and then tried to envision what the valley would look like flooded with deep blue water, and she gasped, wondering if perhaps her brother had found the ocean — but before she thought to ask about it, he mentioned his accident and waking up alone, and Ibis frowned, but gave a friendly nuzzle of her snout as compensation.

That sounds magical, but also frightening—the waking up part specifically. I'm glad you came home, Seamus. At least they were together, she thought; it was odd to imagine roaming the valley with this blonde boy in tow rather than her giant of a brother, but... Okeanos wasn't her only sibling, and the fact she had to remind herself of that made her feel deeply, intimately guilt-ridden. It wasn't her fault she didn't know much about Seamus considering the adventure he went off on, but it made Ibis think of the others — of the rest of Elysium's children who were likely lost in the Wilds, and of her step-siblings at the Hollow.