Firefly Glen it's been a long dark dirty road

Watching the two, Leonore found that her kneejerk reaction in the heartwood may have been right. Katmai clearly liked Kinusi a lot, and Kinusi liked him.

She was loud, confident, charismatic, tall. It made Leonore want to shrink away into herself, and suddenly she wished she had never agreed to come along. ..Hi. The single word was all she managed, scanning the surrounding area to avoid meeting anyones eyes.

Maybe it would be better to walk back towards the coast, or sprint back home to the creek. She thought anything would be better than the painful stab of teenage insecurity she felt now.