The Sentinels But you know I'm gonna play 'em for keeps

"Maia, perhaps, that was one glint of, what he could be, if he tries. But I have lived with him in the same pack for almost two years and after Wildfire's death he has been a true mess," Wraen remarked, leaning her shoulder against her sister's in a reassuring manner. She kept her opinion that Eljay had not exactly tried to get better to herself. "It has always seemed to me that grief and self-loathing is a comfortable state for him, even if he does not realize it. It's a familiar shell and he is too scared to look outside it, even if it is for something better," she said.

"If you think it is worth it, take that chance, Maia," she told her, though this came with great reluctance and she looked away to hide her own pain at the very thought of losing her best friend to someone else. "But if you go into that relationship believing that you can fix Eljay or change him in any way... don't do that. You can't. His nature will clip the wings of yours. If you can accept him for who he is and live with all his faults and flaws - then why not give it a chance. You and him deserve to be loved just as anyone else in this world," Wraen finished the thought and sighed, hoping selfishly that the day, when her sister would leave, was still far off in the future.

"I don't want you to be miserable or unhappy. After all I have uprooted you again and I take full responsibility for that," she ignored the attempt to change the subject, because for her to pretend now that all was great and fine would feel to much like lying. "If you decide to turn back any time - be it now or whenever - I won't hold it against you. Despite, what I promised you back at copse, there will come a time, when you and I too will part ways."