Broken Antler Fen Nice Dream

What was the right answer to that question in this particular situation? Wraen knew that there was nothing she could tell Ibis that would make her feel better, she could not give her reassurances or get her hopes high up. She tried to remember, what had she done, when Elfie had gone missing? Nothing much. Just waited for his return, until a certain period of time other daily things filled her life and mind and she no longer thought about him every day. She had never asked, if Eljay or Weejay had eventually given up on seeing their relative ever alive. It had taken so much time for the Blackthorn man to recover from all the losses, that there had never been a good time for this inquiry.

Now she regretted that she had not harvested that knowledge, when there had still been a chance to do so. And she was sorry that Eljay was not here with them to talk with Ibis now, because, who else would understand one parent's sorrow better as a parent, who too had lost a child? "We do all we can and we wait for her to return," she said eventually. "There's no promise in that, no certainty and it is something we'll have to live every day," she added. "But to live without hope would be far worse. At the moment we can simply pass a word around," she looked at the broken woman sympathetically and moved as if to give her a hug, if she was to accept it.