Grouse Thicket Odysseus has arrived at Ithaca

"Hello, Wildfire!" Wraen returned the greeting and seeing that Maia felt somewhat nervous about the encounter, bumped against her shoulder lightly to tell that they were going to be fine.

"You are correct - this is my little sister, though you wouldn't tell it from looks alone," she began with a joke, because the two siblings belonged to different weight categories.

"We discussed and decided that we would like to join Firebirds. I lean towards a more permanent settlement myself, but Maia is a bit of a wanderer at heart and, when weather conditions are permissive of it, she would like to do some travelling again," she explained, hoping that with this introduction Maia could easily take on herself and add anything else, if she felt like it.

"Is your offer still standing?" she asked, in case something had changed during her brief absence.