Sleepy Fox Hollow pretty rude that it's not friday but ok.

She couldn't help an affectionate rumble. In so many ways, Isa was nothing like Phaedra, but her disinterest in fighting reminded Wylla of her leucistic girl. Most of the time, Isa's sometimes brazen attitude made her think of her eldest daughter...

But Wylla kept Tiercel ever at the periphery of her thoughts, and she would not allow her darkling daughter to invade them now, when she was at peace and happy.

Sometimes, we have to do the icky fighting things, even if we don't want to, she said. But that is also a part of why we have allies — to avoid having to. If Isa didn't wish to learn from Mereo, Wylla would not force her to. She thought she was a perfectly adequate teacher herself. She'd been in enough scrapes in her life to know how to get out of them, at least, and no child of hers would go without that skill.

Next time we visit, maybe you can come with, she suggested, if you think you can be on your best behaviour. What do you say?