The Heartwood I've been cold, I've been merciless

"My siblings are perhaps more charming than myself. I'm the quiet one, if you can believe it." He chuckled along with her, although it was true, except for perhaps Shivali. She could be mighty quiet, especially when speaking the common tongue.

Siarut glanced over her kind comment, to awkward to come up with a reply. Instead he listened more intently to her following question. He took a few moments to contemplate an answer. He was starting to trust this woman, and yet he couldn't bring himself to tell her the whole story. Especially not about Tomkin, and the following confrontation with his father. That was not a conversation he could share so openly.

Instead Sia gave his new friend the outlines of a story. All truth, but not the whole truth. "My brother, sister and I all came in search of our other sister. She, like yourself, left out birth pack looking for more. And we followed." He shruged, it was a very brief version of events, but he couldn't let his emotions get out of hand. Speedy was a turning out to be a good friend, but she was only that, a friend. Only family would ever know the full story. Perhaps one day Speedy might hear the full story, but today was not that day.