Shy Deer Steppes tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow

The two women shared a look that spanned the generations between them, and Easy laughed, enchanted to the core with her granddaughter.

"Neither can I, to tell the truth," she replied, her head swiveling in the direction of Blacktail Deer Plateau. "It's been a long time since I've truly thought to settle in these lands."

Her head whipped around at Madhuri's question, her eyes wide and scandalized.

"Never you mind!" she chided, though the effect was questionable, due to the broad grin she couldn't quite fight off her face. "He was strong and pretty — that's all that really matters, isn't it?"

Tall and pretty and far too close in age to her granddaughter, but that was for her to know, and for Madhu to speculate however she pleased.

"But I am traveling with a young man named Sumac," she went on, her tail whisking. "He's quite handsome himself, you know. And single, and so polite! You ought to meet him."