Alpine Lake Alone, For now

His words told of a casual life -- nothing that would ring bells of alarm other than the frown that so briefly etched his features, but Ellie only assumed it was in thought and not in malice. Another pang of jealousy hit her - Ash looked to have been able to leave his previous life without any memories of spite. In comparison to the threads of hatred she'd left home with -- in tangled strings of events, she couldn't say she'll ever forgive them for. Some part of her understood that they'd only been trying to help and love her in their own way, but their ways were outdated and they could never understand that from the perspective of a parent.
Call her intitled -- call her problems trivial in comparison to those who suffered far worse. Eloise could never see it that way. In her eyes, her freedom was being stripped from her, and it was time to grasp freedom of her own...
She blinked her round, olive eyes at him at the request to follow along and smiled -- a gentle, soft curve of her lips. "I suppose it would be rather lonely..." she agreed. The pale sire's company so far has been refreshing -- after this past month had been filled with nothing but family drama and run-ins with not-so-friendly people, a little adventure didn't sound all too bad.
She circled around the man, snaking her frame so that she was now at his side rather than standing in front of him. 
With an encouraging bump to the shoulder, she turned to beam up at him "Weeellll? lead the way~"