Wheeling Gull Isle they are one person

Sorry, Maegi, he said, his ears flattening some against his skull. It's hard to be away from her. It's hard to talk about anything anymore. It feels like the earth has been knocked out from underneath me. We've had our differences in the past, but I always thought she would put the children first. I'm worried about them... and her. Wherever they are, I have to believe they're safe. It was the most he had spoken since leaving the caldera, and if he'd been smart enough to remember anything that Sequoia had told him, he would have known that talking about what was bothering him was actually quite therapeutic.

Do you really want to know the whole thing? he asked, having previously assumed she was only asking out of habit or duty. He was curious to know what Niamh had said when she'd been here, but he held off on asking for now. He could wait until he'd shared, if that was what Maegi wanted.