Rising Sun Valley rêves de paysages sans fin

Arbiter—interesting.

She didn't waste time in cutting to the quick of things however, and well before Phoebe could return her own name as a gesture of good faith. Instead the songbird wavered between concern and curiosity over presumably missing kin... and felt a pang of guilt rise up like bile on an empty stomach.

"I—no, I haven't. I'm sorry." It seemed empty, not to have something more than an apology. Try as she might, she could not quite shake the consideration that perhaps her family asked after her... or perhaps they had not. Perhaps her younger siblings had indeed replaced her, though that was unlikely.

"Have they been gone long?" Perhaps Arbiter searched for them now, and the cut of her words a means to mask a deeper concern. The way someone who most assuredly cared, wasn't that how it worked?