Redhawk Caldera Restlessness, above all

Maia was glad to hear she'd gotten a good hit in herself, and figured there's probably worse things she could have called her, except none of that was language she ever really used or thought about.  She sounded crazy, and Maia didn't like the idea of running into her herself honestly.  What if they did look similar enough?  What if they all knew they were sisters, or what if Maia was traveling with Arcturus sometime?

That's so messed up, like Arcturus can't decide for himself where he wants to live?!  Maia agreed, feeling herself get a little righteously angry on Wraen's behalf.  And now Arcturus', because they made it sound like he couldn't even make that simple of a decision.  What had growing up there been like, then?  Was that why he was always so quiet?

This was a puzzle.  She tried not to let herself get too down about it right now because she didn't want Wraen to think that she was upset.  She was, a bit... it sounded like staying close was definitely out of the question.  Unless... maybe this was actually the best place for them to be.

What if we didn't ally ourselves with Moonspear... what if we just allied ourselves with the Redhawks?  Maia asked, trying to think it through as she suggested it.  Like... say you meet up with her again.  If we're just on our own, they can attack, no consequences!  But if they know that we're friends of their friends, if they did anything to us, then there'd probably be trouble.  Yeah?  She didn't know if that made any sense, honestly.  It relied on Hydra really valuing her agreement with Towhee, which sounded like the case, but Maia had never really seen the two together.  It also depended on this other woman caring about what Hydra valued.

It just... seemed like it might be a better option than wandering scared anyway.  The alternative was to go either way north or way south, and neither of those boded well for Maia's relationship with Eljay.  So if this solve didn't work, there might be some hard choices coming her way.

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