Starglow Basin Re_jaded.

The caldera was a pretty long ways away. It wasn’t all that far compared to other places, but wasn’t it near Akashingo? And what if she got caught up and couldn’t make it back? What if Towhee changed her mind and Tierra came back to her place here being gone?

Tierra felt herself getting nervous at the thought of it. She’d put way too much on the line here to risk messing things up. And every day she wasn’t here was a day for someone else to shove her out of whatever respect she’d managed to claw from Soto. It was surprising, even to her, realizing how much she actually cared about that.

I don’t think now’s a good time for it, she replied hesitantly. Any further explanation was cut off, however, as Soto arrived. Tierra immediately stood and took a step back, facing both of them. She had almost forgotten that he was the reason her mom was there in the first place.

Shoot. She muttered, expelling a breath. She was going to have to translate, wasn’t she? Not for the first time she wondered why the hell she bothered when Soto couldn’t be troubled to improve his communication prospects. Now probably wasn’t the time for that specific criticism, but she could still be annoyed over it.

He said that you came. I think. Weirdly these words were similar to some she recalled from her time in Mereo. It made it easier to guess the meaning at the very least for words she wasn’t sure on her memory for.