Swiftcurrent Creek I got a bulletproof heart, you got a hollow-point smile

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She didn't know how long she stood there. It seemed an eternity before Akavir's scent strengthened on the wind, before it turned into something tangible; something she could follow. And that was just what she did.

Mae joined her father's patrol in silence. She wanted to ask what had kept him away this time. She wanted to tell him to stop fucking leaving already — but even when he stayed, he still found a way to choose someone else, didn't he? Muskrat was gone now.

And Mae was still here.

Maybe one day he would see that.