Stone Circle I took the stars from our eyes, and then I made a map

so sorry for the wait! I thought I'd replied to this one ages ago

"we won't stop looking for her," she promised, but it was all she could offer the boy. she longed to comfort him, to reach out and embrace him — but the pale girl already tended to him, and she had to remind herself it wasn't her place, not anymore. he'd been dealt a terrible hand at such a young age; she could not imagine losing all that she had before her fifth month. "and whitebark's borders will always be open to you, alsek." she'd cared for him as if he were one of her own, if only for a short time.

she swallows, and looks back to valette. "another of ours has gone missing, a few weeks back. his name is surya - about medium height, brown and cream. has he passed through here, perhaps?" any tidbit of information would satisfy the unrest that swirled in her chest; this disappearance, sudden and without any clear trail, the boy himself vaguely familiar in ways she did not want to analyze — seemed an echo of the past, and she was not going to allow herself another failure.