Redhawk Caldera tadpoles

"of course," teya said, surprised and touched. and — the raven could not help but compare this to her relationship with sorana, and so it came to pass that each soft interaction with her younger daughter resulted in a small glissade of shame.
but she shook it away, and smiled brightly. "too cold to swim," teya mused. "ice breaking. we go to lake. eat first," she urged, motherly even in her vagueness about such things. "and this is called a grayling."