Larksong Grotto monster

The only thing that Laurel could hope for was that Jhala and Reek were out somewhere else, that they wouldn't return for another while. With the brashness of a child that still clung to her, she didn't even think of anything else that might happen if she would hurt the two boys. For some reason it seemed to make perfect sense that if she would get rid of the boys, things could become like they were before — that Indy would return and that Reek would love them again. At this point, Laurel didn't even really know if her father loved her. He would try to make her believe that he did, but she didn't really have any proof. And the boys were still there, and they got more attention than she and Indy did... 'Because they were little and needed care'. Where had he been, then, to provide said care when she and Indra were little?

But there was something deep and biological stopping her from hating Reek for all of this. She felt like he must hate her, to so blindly turn his back on her and her sister for these new children, to give these boys the care that he had never given Laurel and Indra at that age because he just wasn't there for them. All she could feel was self-depracation because she was not good enough, that she wasn't enough, and that these boys must be better than her if they did deserve Reek's love. She felt a detachment to all of them, for despite her love for her father she felt a stirring and terrifying certainty that he would leave her eventually, because everybody left. Even Spring, Casmir and Laika, who had claimed to love her, had never visited after they had come to the borders with Saena.

It stung when Reek didn't even seem to know that Indy was gone when she ran into him. Laurel looked up at him numbly and defiantly, her jaw clenched and she said: "I don't know where she is, she got lost." Tears started to well up in Laurel's eyes; it wasn't hard to, because she was genuinely broken. She glanced at the den to see that the boys were playing inside and with teary eyes said: "I couldn't find her anywhere. What if she got hurt somewhere?" Ears folded back and she looked pleadingly at Reek as she pleaded with a soft whine; "Please go find her with Jhala... I'll watch the boys." By the time they would be back, it would all be over. They would bring Indra back and then there would be no one to care for but the two girls, and everything would go back to normal, and they could finally start making up for all the lost time...