Redhawk Caldera things i'm longing for, someday i'll be bored of

She was gone.

Blueberry had gone hours, even a day or so, without seeing her mother before—but this was different. And now, sniffing around the border where her mother's trail faded out. . .and then following it, and finding it going farther and farther away. . .

She was gone.

She wasn't even sad. Well, she was. But she couldn't separate it from the white-hot anger that overtook her, the affront that seized her entire being.

How dare she?!

Maegi had told them she loved them, that she cared. So had Mou. And now, both of her parents were gone, one of them with no word at all.

Blueberry returned to the base of the caldera and sank down, toes clenching deep within the ground. She gritted her teeth, but it wasn't enough to muffle the shriek of rage that escaped her. She scrabbled at the earth, digging a small hole before flinging herself into it, as if she were making her own grave.

She cried, but it was betrayal more than grief that seized her in the moment.