Blacktail Deer Plateau By the grace of God

She nodded when Blue Willow agreed that the things she'd seen were beautiful. She would have gone further and claimed they were singular; no canyon matched that one and no field of wildflowers was so expansive. She couldn't claim these things, however, for deep down she knew they probably weren't true. Saena wasn't the worldliest wolf, but she seemed to have some knowledge beyond her years, whether or not she acted like it. She knew there were grander things, but she never planned to see them.

"What else happened while I was gone?" she asked, swiftly switching gears. Questions specifically about her father's wife burned on her tongue, but she managed to keep them down for now. Part of her hoped that Blue Willow would supply the answers herself, and another part of her was afraid Blue Willow would agree with Perry's actions if she said too much about it.