Broken Antler Fen Everyone you love has built it

She giggled too, happy to have made him laugh and increasingly thankful that they were able to talk about these kinds of things. Eljay never made her feel pressured not to say what she felt. Her decision not to share that she didn't want to leave hadn't been because she felt he wouldn't listen. She'd just wanted time to think about it, and now she was glad she'd taken it. Things were going to be okay.

You should probably take over story time for that, then. Maybe tell them some things about growing up there? Maia's memories of the Caldera were few and far between, mostly just made in the time she'd been recovering there with Eljay just as they'd been starting out. Those were definitely happy memories, but absolutely none of it had focused on the place. She'd been way too wrapped up in him.