Blackfoot Forest may the light guide me

Her arrival was just as random as his departure, to an extent. The circumstances surrounding his early departure from the Wilds were indeed random, a misfortunate jumble of events that he had no control over. Events that had destroyed his life. “Simplicity is sometimes best.” He lent a slight smile trying to hide his grimace, although to a deft eye there was no hiding the pain.

He hesitated at her question, brain stuck on the words. “I um, no. No I haven’t been here long.” He decided that this was the less painful answer, the half-truth as it were. He had missed the juxtaposition of his comment with his previous one. If he had been here for so little time, then how could he have travelled the area. Shaking his head Sia tried to amend his statement, “That is to say, I only just returned.”