Redsand Canyon Your kisses are poison and all your words are treason

His joy was, as it turned out, going to be short lived.

With each revelation, his heart sank. He stepped away from her, a shadow falling over his face. Wh- He didn't know what to say. Scratch that—he did know what to say. He knew a lot of things to say. Just not the order in which to say them.

Why can't you stay? Killdeer started, finally finding his bearings. If you're not gonna be in the Emberwood— His gaze flickered between his mother and Uncle Fig. 

Didn't she want to be with him? Even if she'd left his dad. . .

Wait, what the hell? Why can't you stay? His normally even temper was beginning to boil over.