Firefly Glen tunngak ⋔

Lane nodded as Kukutux mentioned a young man's need for guidance. She thought of Veteran, and she was glad he had his father to guide him. 

"Oh, I feel the same," Lane sighed out, closing her eyes as she emptied her lungs into the gentle breeze. She didn't want to return home just yet-- not so much because this place was particularly gentle to her spirit, but more so because Duskfire Glacier was so abrasive to it. 

"Things didn't work out the way I'd hoped. The man that I'd thought-- that I'd hoped would-- well.. he chose someone else. ..Wintersbane also chose another. I'm.." She almost said "alone," but she corrected herself. "I have my children." 

She did not tell Kukutux of the backup plan she'd made with Kigipigik, or the disappointment she'd suffered when she arrived at Blacktail Deer Plateau and his pack was gone. Lane cared what Kukutux thought of her, and she didn't want to moonwoman to think she was duplicitous. The fact of the matter was that whether it involved duplicity or not, nothing she hoped or planned for herself seemed to be working out.