Heart of steel starts to grow

At the mention of Atticus Osprey's face fell. She hadn't been a very good sister and hadn't visited him after that one time, when Peregrine had shown her, what had happened. His condition had struck her in a bad way she hadn't dared to return to that den and see that empty look in his eyes. She had heard that he had got better and she had been glad for that, albeit for Willow's sake. Because it seemed that the time she had spent away and his illness had destroyed the last shreds of close sister-brother relationship they had once shared. They were strangers and Osprey felt very guilty for feeling that way.

Therefore, when she had found out that he had wandered off, she hadn't been sure, what to do. One part of her yearned to go looking for him, but she remembered the last time she had gone on a search party and, how that hadn't gone as planned. Crete was still missing, but she had stopped to care. The other didn't want to leave the plateau, which was her home now, and she hoped that Atticus would turn up eventually. "Don't feel that way," she closed the distance between the two and leaned over to give a reassuring nudge on Dante's cheek. "You can't herd us all. Besides there is always a hope that he might return."