Wheeling Gull Isle sawajus

she was trying to be nice.
Mo felt his back straighten; he did miss his mother, and so many others, but he thought he had hidden his deeper feelings well enough (which was evidently wrong, but he was such an open book that it was hard for him to hide anything).
mm, maybe, but i... don't know, he wanted to keep his mother's songs to himself. they were precious, private, beloved things.