Moonsong Glacier send the darkness

The show of support meant a lot to Towhee. There wasn’t a snowball’s chance in hell she would ever marry again—Jr never need worry about making space for a stepfather, a thought which earned a derisive snort—and she didn’t think she would have any more children. But she’d thought that before.

-“I originally came out this way to hunt some small game to take back to Moontide. Would you like to join me? We can split whatever we catch.”-

She made no mention of just why she was out here, working on a skill she’d long accepted as totally mediocre. Towhee didn’t want to burden her replica with her worries about feeling inadequate and needing to prove her worth. She didn’t need to dignify these feelings that way.

-“Let’s go that way,”- Towhee said, pointing at the forest where she'd last seen Sable. -“We’ll find something to eat and maybe your brother. Better yet, maybe both. C’mon!”-

Fade here? <3