Broken Antler Fen best fake smile

can be a cameo!

something had shifted inside teya since's wraen's death.
she spent many hours each day fishing, bringing the catches to ibis and to wherever she had last seen eljay. not yet had she come upon maia's den, or searched for it. she was not ready to be around children again, not when any of their small faces would remind her in a dire way of ibis.
and akavir.
today she carried half a trout and followed the caretaker's trail to where it seemed to thicken into a morass. she was too far away to see him against the den; coolwater eyes swept the foliage. a long, thrumming note: food for maia, and she set it down in the path he had left. 
teya meant to leave again. she was caught by a vision of a cardinal, shimmering among the trees.
what did bridget want from what they had, the raven wondered.