Redsand Canyon Lost her only son and he wasn’t even three

a family.

donovan calls them a family when everyone has gathered to meet the newest: a woman named leigh. we are not a family. we're not even a kru, but she bites all this back. she offers an assessment of their newest recruit, unsure what it was about her that made donovan decide to stand like a god before them and introduce her as if she were special. in a way he hadn't introduced any of them.

riley's words come back to her and she bites down on her tongue.

she doesn't strike praimfaya as the type to chase donovan's sexual prowess but ...they don't even know each other and first impressions can be wrong. praimfaya. she offers her name. a blade. and as there was nothing else to say she falls silent and hangs back until they are all dismissed where she will return to the patrol she was pulled from in the first place.