Blacktail Deer Plateau By the grace of God

She folded back her ears when Blue Willow mentioned missing Peregrine. It was clear from the look on her face she felt quite different than the Healer regarding her foster father. She looked like she might say something about it, but Saena wisely kept whatever it was to herself. Instead, she said, "he deserves to be alone." It wasn't any better than what she'd initially been thinking, she realized, but it was already out, so she fell into an uneasy silence.

Whether or not Blue Willow berated her for voicing her harsh opinion, Saena latched onto the topic of what she'd done while she was away. "I just wandered," she said, "and got really hungry. I found a cool field of wildflowers, though, and a really neat canyon." She'd like to go back there someday, she thought, maybe with Junior in tow. She suspected her cousin-sister would like that place.