Broken Antler Fen greathawk

her gaze faltered; she looked away from eljay.
"ah —"
lip-bitten and then dragging herself back to an answer;
"i very angry when she come home, injured. i threaten caldera. she say i wrong. she say towhee need help. she say — what i do — how i act, when wraen die —" and now the angry tears welled up again, "is ... like the way towhee act here. i insulted. so — i lie then go to caldera."
there it was, thrown all it, strewn like pine needles. 
teya waited, eyes and figure downcast, but still with the strange sense of relief she felt when confessing things to eljay.