fire meet gasoline

yay<3
and this takes place before tuwa leaves :'( / last happy thread for mae

With her meatball nose hovering over the ground and her tail whipping from side to side, Maera took off running like a hound that followed a trail. She had not idea where she would end up and honestly she did not care. Today she would expand her horizons, she would dive into uncharted lands of her map without even a compass in her hand.
That was how Sveijarn's were.

They didn't need directions, they were born with an leading arrow in their heart that came with no instruction manual but somehow always managed to point the right way. Except for Daddy. He should've come back by now -- with Larus obviously. Maybe he had gotten side tracked along the journey.
Maybe he had stopped to pick flowers to bring back for her.
Yeah, that was it.

Foolishly blinded by her innocence, Maera continued to trot along, her nose picking through every bush and rock in hopes to find her brother's paarticular fragance, But of course there was no luck. The smallest child's scent was far gone -- just like the light in her mother's eyes.

She had pretended not to have noticed but the dark circles weighing under her eyelids were impossible to miss. They messed with her mother's fiery complexion, making her for once look frail and vulnerable. It was scary and painful for the babe's heart to see that her own hero was now crying out for help.

That was one of the many things that had fueled her desire to end with the mystery once and for all. No one else would be taken from her family, loosing Daddy and Larus had been the last straw.
She'd get them back or she'd join them trying.