Whitebark Stream I walk a lonely road....

she is silent a moment, considering. given her experience with sudden disappearances, in her heart, she doesn't hold out much hope. she shifts, weighing her thoughts, and then speaks. "my first mate — he vanished a year ago. I searched for weeks, but I never found him. sometimes people vanish from our lives, sometimes, it's cruel, and random." she will not give their healer false hope, for she knows how much it burns. 

"but we will do all we can to find surya. I'm going to easthollow soon, I'll ask about him there. if we don't have scouts who can look for him now, perhaps our allies do." she's not been over the mountains in a few seasons, does not know the situation beyond them. she is no longer the boundless adventurer of her youth, and the uncertainty is almost grating. "you stay here. we need you, aphrodite, and surya might come back." sometimes, they truly did. more than anything, she did not want the healer to come to more harm outside their borders.