Redhawk Caldera Azurite

She wanted to laugh at the comment about her sore eyes, though Towhee couldn't crack so much as a smile right now. She did acknowledge Wraen's invitation with a bob of her head, wondering if her intuitive friend had also sensed her restlessness.

Drawing away from the light touch, the Sovereign began to walk. She didn't talk right away, though. She sifted through her thoughts, balking a little at how much had happened since their prior rendezvous. In the wake of the past week's events, Towhee had almost forgotten about the fall of Moonspear. Thinking on it now, she realized something.

"Did you hear about Moonspear?" Towhee asked, apropos of nothing. "Hydra—" She shook her head when her sore throat closed around her sister-in-arms' name. "Meerkat and Bronco are okay but there were a lot of casualties. And now she's living with Kukutux, of all people. I want her to come here, though she said they need her more right now..."

Of course, neither one of them had known how much Towhee would come to need her daughter's support; she'd visited the day before everything had completely fallen apart here. Whenever Meerkat visited again, Towhee might outright ask her to stay here with her. That made her ache for her other children too. She wished @Alyx and @Fennec would come back from the coast; that @Figment and @Quetzal would return from Frosthawks; that sweet @Primrose would rise from the dead...

That made her think of her other dead children, because now she had multiple. Towhee swallowed thickly, pacing in cagey silence for a few moments before she could bring herself to look Wraen in the face and tell her, "I miscarried two of my pups. There are others—I can feel them, right now—but Reyes isn't in the picture anymore."