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Raleska did not catch the shift in topic, looking up in surprise as what Julep had just asked sunk in. At first Raleska balked immediately -- but then, tiny little thoughts and fancies took hold. She was a homebody, and always had been. Maybe this could be her chance to shine?

But her brothers, her mother; they would not understand. She felt conflicted, but not unsure. She knew what she had to do. "I will help you claim here, but I can't leave my family." Dragoncrest Cliff was not so far from her family that she would be leaving them, or at least that's how Raleska justified it.