Sun Mote Copse so you found another way

She brushed off his remark with a wave of her paw. There was no way anyone could’ve kept track of her, particularly this past year. Towhee waved it a second time when he questioned her about her eye, though now that he’d called her attention to it again, she rapidly blinked whilst making some rather peculiar faces.

I’m fine. A certain falling leaf just picked a fight with me. I lost, she quipped, but I’ll live. I think.

She gave it a rest, expression falling back into more speculative lines as she regarded Eljay. He hadn’t answered her question directly, though Towhee could gather a few things from his response. He hadn’t expected to find her here. Perhaps he hadn’t expected to find anybody here.

I know you didn’t come looking for me, so who—or what—did you come looking for? Towhee pressed inquisitively.