Ankyra Sound mother, mother: how's the family?

Raleska feigned a smile under Surya's kindness; she felt so out of world, so alien -- and even though it was very real what she was going through, it was surreal so many wolves had come to her aid. No matter his firmness she deserved it, Raleska would believe otherwise -- call it survivor's guilt, or something similar.

Her gaze fell to the children as he spoke of them, and then asked if she lived near by. "No, I traveled really far to come here." She didn't know why. She had been sick, she had not been in the right state of mind.. It was all cloudly. "I was born here." She suddenly added, as if that would make all the pieces fall into place. "What about you, do you live nearby?"