Redsand Canyon A dirt road's singing me a siren song

Ever since I could sneak across the borders. I used to go up the mountain paths, and sometimes I'd run into trouble. Wraen had started her training, but she'd fought ever since to measure up and survive.

At least, I assumed I was sneaking at the time. Now I wonder if they didn't know and just let me go anyway. Mom would. Fennec smirked, finding it hard to imagine Towhee stopping her. She'd been dead-set on her rebellion when she'd started all of this but her parents had never tried to hold her back before. Funny how things became clearer the more you grew up.

Places like these aren't much for letting kids be kids, are they? She asked, her mind going there for a number of reasons. Killer had grown up in the Caldera. If she and Germanicus... then they'd grow up here. She wondered how much he expected of them, and how much he expected her own opinions to differ. There was no way he was ready, she thought, extremely amused by the prospect of it.