Blacktail Deer Plateau ever he is, who takes his seat so close

While the mixture she had applied to his wounds began to set, to dry, there was a calm that settled between them. Though they did not share blood they were family and it felt so, so good to be back with her; with all of them, really. Reyes was not bothered with the quiet - but when Erzulie asked her little question, he felt a twist in his heart. It was not her doing but the effect of his memory, summoned by the question and coloring his words.

At first he did not want to say anything but Reyes couldn't avoid talking about it.

A place called Tortuga, he explains carefully, watching her in case she might recognize it; he doubted his parents would have known of this place, somehow. It felt like a magical (and distant) land, something he alone could understand. He swallows a lump in his throat and continues: It is a large territory with many crews - ah, packs - and, uh... I fell in with one. Skeleton Quay.

His face darkens, and Reyes stops speaking - looking away from his mother and at the trees as if they are the most interesting thing all of a sudden.