Blacktail Deer Plateau By the beat of my heart

"Well..." Osprey said thoughtfully and looked down at her toes briefly, "in the end it didn't matter that much as I had thought." There was a tinge of guilt in the way she had said that, yet a little voice in her head told her spitefully that wherever Crete was now, he didn't feel guilty about leaving them. If he had... he would have said "goodbye" at least.

"I needed to find myself again," she said, now focusing her gaze at a point located somewhere at Blue Willow's forehead. "And I did. I am well... for now at least," she shrugged, looking a little uneasy.