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"Definitely," Fin confirmed with a confident nod, "In my whole life, I have never stopped becoming interested and disinterested in new and different things. One day you think fishing is the greatest thing ever and you want to be an expert fisherman, then you realize you only liked fishing because you wanted to go swimming. It takes a while to figure out what you're really into." What a wise old woman she was being that day. It was certainly interesting to her to see how much kinder this young boy was than the females she'd met of his same age. He and Small Pox. Maybe it was a boy thing - and just as she thought that, she decided she wanted nothing but sons someday. That was a weird thing to think. What was up with her?

"I was just heading home," Fin replied when asked what she was doing in the mountains, "I prefer taking inconvenient, windy paths." She gave the boy a grin, anticipating that he might understand that sentiment himself as a newly aspiring outrider.