Blacktail Deer Plateau Heard the sound of subways down the line

Ying remained silent, though Rosalyn pressed for more details about Lele. Harps could only smile fondly as she thought of her older half-sister, though there was a flicker of pain in her copper eyes at the latter question. "Yeah, we were," she said, feeling a little pang at the past tense. "We were a united front while our parents duked it out constantly, hence why the two of us rarely argued. There was enough of that going around already, you know?"

She paused, looking down and scuffing a pale forepaw in the snow for a moment before saying, "Lele didn't want to leave them, despite that. She'd been with them for two years—her whole life—and even though she knew it was toxic and everything, she wouldn't come with me when I said I was leaving. She supported my decision but she just wouldn't..." Harps trailed off there, feeling a tightness in her chest.

Suddenly self-conscious, she became a little flustered as she said, "I don't mean to ramble on. Um," Harps faltered for a beat before glancing between Rosalyn and the now taciturn Ying, "I was just trying to get a feel for the territory when I bumped into you two. I should get back to it, unless there's anything I can help with?" Her eyes lingered on Rosalyn, wondering if the two had been doing anything in particular before she'd bumped into them.