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Druid said nothing.  The silence stretched.  Eventually she spoke, but it was no more clarifying.

Redd had already answered this in both words and in actions.  Yet what she wanted was wrong.  Confusion flickered into something else, something shaped more like hurt.  She did not want to feel wrong when, for the first time in so long, she had known so firmly what she was.

Sorry.  She did not apologize for what she had done, only that she had nothing else.  She did not want this silence, this confusion, or to change the things she was.  The apology was also in the last look she shared, but then she turned and stepped away, no hesitation in this choice.

She did not blame Druid, but the goose was left where it had been dropped.  She could not accept this token if it meant she needed to be something else.  And if Druid had not wanted the Redd she had been given today, then she did not want Redd after all.