Duck Lake lord and one day i come home to find

Their pace seemed to be slowing, which told the perceptive lady that the body of water coming into view was likely to be Arrow Lake, their destination. Thorn returned her question, which probably should not have come as a surprise to Rue since it was in keeping with the natural flow of casual conversion. However, Rue found herself somewhat unprepared to provide her own answer.

"Oh, ah.." she trailed off vaguely, eyes sweeping the territory she would soon call home. "Similar circumstances, I suppose," she finally said. It wasn't altogether untrue-- she had departed Red Fern Grove when she had reached the typical dispersal age, after all. She had simply dispersed less, ah, willingly than Thorn and his siblings had when they departed their birthland. 

Rue swallowed. "It would have been nice to have company back then, when I was first setting out." Thorn was lucky to have had siblings along for the ride. "I've never liked being on my own," she admitted.