Nova Peak Splitting

Is that why you’re hiding? she rejoined, referring to Masquerade’s recent refusal to acknowledge that she was in pain, though Carrion’s words would more easily be understood as plainly literal. She observed her sibling as they stepped out from beneath the overhang into the grey-skied sunlight, and when they did not wince, she knew she must be feeling somewhat better.

Carrion stood and shook out her coat, coming to sidle alongside her sibling-mother. She looked down the mountain, noting that the mist beneath them had grown thin, just as Masquerade’s headache. I think rabbits hide because it is kinder than scratching a wolf’s eyes out.