Emberflame Ridge there's no turning back now

Séamus had never lied before in his life.  No, he'd never even withheld parts of the truth.  Truthfully, he was bad at it — it didn't feel good to keep secrets, and he wasn't smart enough to not let something slip out eventually anyway.  Still, he made a split-second decision: let her believe that they'd left the Willows, and that they were all the better for it.

I see, he said quietly, before letting the conversation steer away from the thing he wanted to avoid in the first place.  I'm missing 'Leu, too.  I can't 'member what happened, all I know is I woke up and she was gone and I could hardly breathe 'cause there was so much rocks 'n dirt on top of me.  

He looked to the ground (bad, dirty liar) as he told her, Speakin' of which, you might not want to go down that way.  The tunnels are all closed up now, 'n I don't know what's left of the Willows themselves.  Once he was finished fibbing, he turned his eyes back to her.  Maybe we can look for our siblings together.