Blackfeather Woods so if you want me off your back

for a moment her mother is a stranger; so different than the perfect, warped image that was her memory. but then she rushed forward, moving to embrace her mother warmly as an excited bark slipped from her maw. "I missed you." she echoes, taken aback by the information she offers and glad, then, that she'd slipped away when she had. 

"I left, weeks ago, and tried to come back. but with all that's happened—I got lost. mom, I missed you." she says again, pressing her forehead against her mother's shoulder.