Mount Everfall She lit a fire

Maia definitely wasn't expecting company so soon, and she'd been trying to decide where she should go first.  She wanted to head straight to the Firebirds... but she knew if she went there, she'd have a hard time leaving.  She HAD to give Sarah and Terance the news.  So she'd essentially settled on Lost Creek Hollow when Bronco came upon her.

Wait, was that a compliment?  She wasn't sure if he was talking about the sunset or, tone wise, something else.  Either way, she laughed, and with her awkward surprise both seeing him and the confusion, it was one of those weird and kind of loud ones she always regretted right after. She was such a spaz.

Uh, yeah.  Oh no she was so done with boys with pretty smiles, and pretty eyes, and pretty.... gold flecks.... down their sides.  Yeah heck he was real pretty.  Maia didn't have much of a discerning taste; she fell for about every guy she came across.  But even though he seemed younger than she was, that darn grin made her brain devolve a step or two.  Hormones, activate... focus Maia, focus.

Are you, like, from here? she finally asked.  It was a dumb question to start a conversation, she decided straight away, but it was the best she could do right now.  She was a little out of practice, with the whole traveling alone and staying with family thing.