Swiftcurrent Creek I am not a legend, I'm a fraud

Mae shrugged. She didn't have good answers for any of these questions. Dunno. They just disappeared. Maybe they'll come back, or... she shrugged again, half to herself this time. This is home, anyway. Don't got another place to be.

It wasn't as if she could go traveling as Kaiaka was; for a moment Mae considered it, and quickly decided that she didn't want to anyway. No, she'd seen enough of the world. Enough to know that it sucked everywhere. This was home.

Used to be protectors of the valley. I wonder if some shit went down while I was gone... Mae was thinking aloud now, though it was nothing she hadn't already thought of. There should have been some kind of evidence of a conflict, though, and she'd found nothing connected to any of her family.