"She wouldn't, though... would she?" Aelwyn being sent away on another mission hadn't occurred to her. Like Ren and Akechi, gone away for nearly two years now on field missions. The thought of it aches in her chest. To have the people she loves here gone away, out of her grasp like Ciaran had been at home... returned to his own country after the uprising. Like her own family. Evergreen might as well have been on a different continent for all the contact she expected to have with them after agreeing to join the Sisters of the Spring Tide.

"We got so much to do at home. That-that wouldn't make no sense."