Sun Mote Copse he went galumphing back

Her limbs felt queerly jellylike when she saw the way he looked at her, just before delivering the bad news. Slowly, she sank into a sit, breathing through a slight ringing in her ears. Avery went to the Frosthawks? That was unexpected, although certainly not bad news. The same went for the tidbit about Penn and Fen going off on some grand adventure together. Well, that was something, wasn't it?

But there was something else, something horrible, coming and Sugar guessed at its nature in the heartbeat before Figment broke it (the news and her heart). She didn't say anything, just internally grappled with this information. Death was a part of life, the natural conclusion especially for the elderly, and her parents hadn't been spring chickens when she'd left on her ill-fated trip. Her mouth felt dry and her throat clicked as she tried to drum up the details from the last time she'd seen them. She'd told them goodbye for now, unaware that it would be goodbye for good.

She waited for tears to come, though they didn't. Sugar's legs were trembling though. She looked down at them, then back up at Fig, feeling... not exactly numb, but almost as if this information was too enormous to truly process. She knew it would hit her (over and over, probably) but all that she had to show for it at the moment was a case of the shakes. She still couldn't find her voice; what words could she even say to this?