Hoshor Plains brings me 'round again

The word stings, as if Eve himself were being rejected instead of River. It amazes him how selfish Dawn thinks of the situation, but perhaps, he, too, is being the same. Stubborn in the way he digs his heels into business that is not his. His blind eye twitches, as if a violent memory.

Because I know what it’s like to lose family, he says, and I found him, lost, without one, and he thought he got it back when you guys joined us. Now you want to leave him all the same. Even if it had been a dead end, at least you would have had each other. Just like how he had Thistle, until he didn’t any longer.