Dragoncrest Cliffs The Wild Mountain Thyme

mireille was pleased and clear-eyed as she came to join them. she kissed mercy, hugged meerkat, snugged her da. this was hard, as hard as it was to have seen coraline and loko go too. but it was nice to know that mercy was alive, that she had not been taken or killed.
for that reason alone she would not cry.
and when meerkat left, and when her mother followed, she slid into their rift. "hey, eti!" she called to her nephew. "let's go an' see if mercy is not too big to be tickled, oui?" she invited with a chuckle, before leading him in a playful lope that direction.