Blackbeak Bluff And I'll never be alone

Even if Wraen did not decide to make Drageda her home, Sequoia would at least be able to show her where it was. Maybe she could come back another time and she would change her mind! Even if that didn’t happen, maybe Wraen could come visit and they could still swap stories. Seq wasn’t quite sure what the policy was on visitors... but perhaps it would be like with Dalia. They could hang out just outside Drageda, or at least they could start there and head off somewhere else for the day. Maybe Wraen could even show her lands far beyond what she’d seen before! Sequoia’s imagination certainly did have a propensity to go wild. That was likely the reason she had momentarily been frightened by the Catawampus.

With Wraen in tow, the piebald Goufa began to make her way back to Drageda. Already the sky was beginning to dim slightly, and she realized she had stayed out a bit longer than she had planned. In any case, she and Wraen would make it back before nightfall as long as they kept up a decent pace.

Her ears were swiveled slightly backward toward her new traveling companion, sopping up all the information that was being given to her. Later that night, she would be reminded of this conversation as she was speaking to Daddy Dio about nightmares and dreams. It was such an odd idea that adults might be afraid of things, too. Sequoia had always thought them incapable of fear, but learning that they could experience fright was a new one on her. Maybe being afraid was not such a childish thing after all, and that comforted her to some degree.

So the adult thing to do is get over the fear, she (quite maturely, in her opinion) replied. A child might continue to be afraid, but what separated the men from the boys (or the women from the girls, in this case) was the ability to look past the irrational spooks and realize that imaginary things couldn’t hurt you.