Lost Creek Hollow look at me, i am old but i am happy

yes, sionnach was a strong, brave girl, and one thing strong, brave girls did is that they let nobody tell them what to do. naturally, given her face had just been given a lift by virtue of hundreds of little quills, sionnach was letting no one tell her what to do -- not even her father, who just wanted to console her.

while gannet was off looking for soothing herbs, sionnach became morosely quiet. most of the suffering and pain had eased over into shock, which made the normally unmalleable girl alarmingly compliant. all of her sobbing had given way to a deadened, thousand-yard-stare look, and while she was propped between her father's large paws, all sionnach could do was stare ahead in dull, denatured shock.