Redhawk Caldera Handle With Care

teya smiled, perhaps letting out a laughlike sound. "sisters never get along at first. i mean that you have bond with frolic. even if not perfect. it may not be. but she little. she outgrow all her foolishness, yeah?"
but the blackthorns were a stubborn family, and it attributed to teya's next sigh. she glanced toward the ground now, then lifted her head. "i not want to stay, dwin. but my children want to stay. so i stay with them." 
and that was that. there was no reason to resent the earth, to avoid bronco's grave. there was no reason to flee. they grounded her, and this land was theirs to hold until teya felt they were old enough to be without her.
and then;
she did not know.