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Dwin noticed that Teya was not exactly happy, but she also did not remember the Raven ever being as an exuberant person. Among the generally rowdy and lively Blackthorn/Redleaf majority of the Brecheliant her personality contrasted starkly. She considered to ask, what was wrong and whether there was anything she could do to help, but it felt awkward to do so. Not because she would feel embarrassed, but rather the gap in age and experience between them. Dwin was almost an adult, but Teya had been a grown-up longer. It would take another year or two, before the two could face and talk to each other as equals. 

"Maybe both?" Dwin suggested and shrugged. "I mean they can't hunt puppies as they used to during summer," she referred to a myth that Teya might have mentioned in order to extend the young Blackthorn's life expectancy. More likely explanation was that during one of the many fishing lessons the Raven had warned Dwin not to go to the lakeside on her own or swim there and the girl had come up with a creative explanation, why was it so. Explaining to someone that you can drown and die without that someone having an actual experience of it almost happening, is quite fruitless. Most adults learn from their own mistakes. For kids - that is the only way they learn. 

"So, I say that they have a hu-u-u-u-ge den down there, where they all huddle up together during the winter, sleep soundly and wait for the ice to melt," she said. "What do you think, what do fish do all day long underwater? Sure they eat and sleep, but what else? If I was a fish, I wanted to come out of water too. There's so much life here they miss," she mused.