Deepwood Weald Hello

The matriarch allowed this promise to comfort her, though she worried that the choice might somehow be taken away from her wandering girl. That was life, though — and Easy had survived plenty of time on her own. She didn't wish it for her daughter, but she knew that Dreamgirl was strong enough to weather it.

"It is," she sighed, a weary smile on her face. "I pray that, if you choose to have children, they are all content to stay close to home. But I am sure that my father wished that for me, and his parents for him."

There was a warm glimmer in her pumpkin eyes.

"Have you met any handsome boys?" she asked then, cheeky now.