Redhawk Caldera rosebowl

<3! mayybeee we can have another one post-wedding/post fennec's visit? <3

bronco meant well. but all teya could hear was criticism, and she wanted to tell him that bridget had already set her to rights in the same uncertain way. "a year," was what she said, voice gone deadened once more so she wouldn't lash out at him for being concerned. "not forever."
bronco had his own pain, and some part of teya was desperately grateful that when the end came, she would not be alone in the experience.
the bitter irony was that after this talk, reyes would indeed go missing from the caldera. for now teya blinked, apology still lining her features, and then turned away. 
this time she quickened her step, refusing to run but with no other words to give. and nothing to let bronco have in return; she had no capacity to offer her sympathies to the end of his own relationship.
what he said about sorana's future stung, and not for the first time did she consider how maybe eljay and maia would have been better suited to give the girl the stability teya had failed to grant.