Nimbus Summit Home At Last?

"Kicked out?" Lane echoed, clearly just as confused as Calida. "Atautsikut is a family, and family doesn't turn away from you in your hour of need." Lane couldn't believe that Calida had returned at all, if that was the kind of reception she was expecting. She was a brave woman to show up here, willing to look Lane in the eye and own up to her mistake. 

"No, you're not kicked out," Lane reassured her, "..and I'm not mad, I'm just.." Disappointed? No that wasn't it either. "..worried. Unplanned pregnancy is a hard path to walk. I know that firsthand." Single motherhood was also very difficult, as Lane had learned after Wintersbane's passing. Lane hoped for Calida's sake that the father was going to step up and take some responsibility.