Sun Mote Copse Dark aeon.

Yeah.  She tried to take Towhee's words to heart, but now that she'd opened this floodgate, she was burrowing down it.  Yeah, but someone has to guide me, she said, a little quieter.  Then she half shrugged, half shook, dismissing it physically.  It's fine, it's not like I gotta worry about it yet.  

She didn't really want to get into the ways she felt her life was less than great, because she knew her parents did their best to make the parts that were amazing.  

I bet Fig is gonna have loads of kids though.  He's different, now.  Ever since coming back, he'd been more serious.  He'd talked a lot about that wolf he spent time with, the leader of the Frosthawks, who apparently taught him stuff like responsibility and calm and whatever other shit her brother seemed into.  She was happy for him, but not the direction her own path had taken her... and led her towards a propensity to hanging with Penn a lot more often than not nowadays.