Redsand Canyon opposing

going to handwave and call this present day (ish) <3

Her daddy had promised her a trip to the coast and was supposed to have come. They would have only been gone a week, but when she went to check, they'd said he left a while ago. Where was he?

Surely he hadn't forgotten her. And surely nothing bad had happened, right? So it had to be something else. Maybe he'd been sidetracked by someone needing help, like when she'd found Sybol. Or maybe he was caught by brigands, but he didn't want them to know about his daughter. So to protect her, he was leading them astray, forced to cooperate with them until he could make his daring escape. She liked that one the best, though in it, Reyes was the hero. Heroes always turned out okay in the end.

She knew her mom wouldn't want to hear it, and her siblings were nowhere to be found. She could tell Sybol, but she liked the way he saw her now. If she complained about her daddy not coming, that would totally ruin the whole thing she had running.

So she kept it to herself and remained steadfastly positive. He would come, when he could. He just needed a little time was all.

Tierra had been on the borders lingering, watching, but she passed Maxim on her way back. She hadn't made a huge effort to get to know the guy, mostly because he was her mom's... something? Tierra didn't really know. But he was also a cutie, and not an option, so kind of a waste of her time. Is that for mom? Tierra asked, cocking her head and looking at him. No better way to keep her mind off of her dad than by talking to her mom's new flame, right?