Blacktail Deer Plateau From Under the Floorboards

Raleska's breath came in shaky gasps, her ears pounding with a rush of blood -- her blood, pounding. He had left her? He had left her? Raleska was torn between fury and despair, sorrow and relief. If what he had said was true, and Raleska had no reason to believe was not, it was likely their mother was dead..

Guilt tormented Raleska, for her first instinct once she had processed all of this was a sorrowful sort of relief. It meant they could finally stop looking, finally stop chasing, finally live. Her mother, recently departed it seemed, had done so much for them -- but she had also caused irreparable strife.

Raleska felt her legs give way. Suddenly she was sitting, breathing rapidly to the point she was nearly hiccuping. Her vision seemed to gather shadows, and then unfurl -- so that Svalinn was swimming before her, no more real than an apparition hazily hanging across the sea. "L-left her." She parroted dumbly, her blood and cheeks tingling. "I.."

She could hold onto her good senses no longer. With a cry, Raleska shoved @Svalinn away from her in a burst of hurt -- and then turned and ran from his form. Tears trailed behind her and blurred her vision, but Raleska did not stop. 

slapping on an ending, hope it is okay <3