You Sweet Fool

Ashe blinked in surprise. "Remi asked about me?" Her heart squeezed in her chest as she straightened up, looking up at her mother again. She didn't think.. she hadn't realized Remi thought of her as someone worth asking after. He was family in her eyes and heart, but she wasn't... she wasn't anything. She swallowed and nodded, turning away from that line of thought and towards Vai's work schedule. "I'll stop by," was all she said - though sincerity rang in her words. She was eyeing the pheasant again as her mother addressed her unfinished hunt, and Ashe turned back in time to see the raven haired wiman's grin. The wolf girl couldn't suppress the smile she weakly echoed. Perhaps it was unsure but.. she nodded. "Okay," she agreed. She lingered under Vai's arm for a moment longer before she pushed forward and rose to her feet in a fluid motion, feet quiet and soft as she stepped toward the pheasant. She turned back to look at Vervain as she leaned down to retrieve it. And.. through the crushing silence in her head, the empty dark, she felt a glimmer of anticipation when a realization struck her: she had 't spent enough time with her mother, just the two of them. "Lead the way," she said, adjusting the straps to her harness bag. ashetta it's live or die my way.