Redhawk Caldera Is it rejoicing, or merely halloing?

Ruenna nodded and Towhee's heart did a little leap, though it sank a bit at her old friend's next words. Lips pressing together, she took a moment to step back and assess what she was seeing. Rue looked just as Towhee remembered. Something about the way she held herself, as well as the expression on her face, seemed to age her though. The Sovereign frowned, her mind skipping back to Asterism Grove, the landslide, being trapped, all the mysteriously missing wolves...

"I'm just," the began inarticulately, shooting Rue an apologetic smile before trying again, "I'm glad you're okay. More or less?" Those three simple words gently implored her old comrade to share what'd happened, what she'd been through and where she'd been all this time.