Rising Sun Valley every doubt we had is coming undone

assuming mira recruit thread goes as planned here~

rarely does samothes regret his decisions. he'd accepted the strange woman in the glacier's offer -- maybe he's just in to the rush of a newly-formed pack, that precious moment before ideals have to give way to the unforgiving edge of reality. either way the promise of a culture he doesn't understand and the... oddity of mirabelle herself are enough to keep him intrigued. he'll stick around for a while. 

intent on stretching his legs the messeda slips from the glacier, thinking, perhaps, of tracking his sister to the west, seeing for himself if she'd really returned to ravensblood or if some other interest had captured her attention. if nothing else he has to get her back for the goddamn fox head -- she doesn't get to have the last word like that! a head for a head, perhaps, although frankly it's inelegant.

his musing on how to best get his sister back are interrupted by a familiar call like homecoming. surprised and pleased by this omen, samothes lifts his head, returning the call with his own -- i'm here, it says -- all but running as he makes his way towards the sylph that bore that cry. thelxiope. rarely does samothes regret his decisions, but -- he has felt, perhaps, a twinge of guilt in not stopping to say good bye to her, despite their distance in the past months. "thelxiope!" the highbrow-boy calls, offering a smile -- one that gathers reservedly at the corners of his mouth, but a genuine one nonetheless.