Northstar Vale no peace of mind

Her lips pulled into a grim line of acknowledgement at his understatement. The only reason she hadn’t lost her mind, she supposed, was because some small part of her was always prepared for her loved ones to leave. Even with Maxim, who she loved deeply, she had always kept this eventuality in mind. They had even spoken of it!

-“Good,”- she said simply when he agreed to stay. -“You should go speak with Arsenio and Tamar. You can find their den in Saffron Grove, in the heart of the vale. As for me, I have to go off and be a dumbass now.”-

She inhaled and looked past Kallik’s pale shoulder to the borders. Maxim was out there somewhere. Towhee was swiftly losing hope of finding any trace of him, yet she didn’t know what else to do but channel all her anguish into searching. She let out her breath on a sigh, nodded to Kallik, and proceeded out of Epoch.