Blacktail Deer Plateau Back in the days

Following Anigan's questions a silence spilled out between the two of them; one figure pale, the other dark -- both their expressions drawn in a long grimace of hurt and sorrow. Raleska heaved a sigh into the wind - she knew, and yet, had no way to formulate into words..

She shrugged her thin shoulders, giving Anigan a look of helpless surrender. "Because... it was who she was." It was best she could answer; it was just the way things were. The way they had always been. "I'm sorry, Ani." Raleska repeated again, her voice clouded by remorse.