To Fly You Must Fall

Maea Big dreamers shoot for open skies The little flirtations confused Maea, made her far more flustered than she felt she ought. The way Hotaru spoke was open and frank in a way the pale girl wasn't used to, and the way she flushed at it made her seem far younger than her actual years. Her diminutive size certainly did not help either. Trying to stave off teasing she merely smiled awkwardly and shook her head, trying to wave the question off, distract with something else. "Thank you, she said to the compliment of the drinks. "It's my family's make... used to be our main source of income." There was a pride to the way she said it, though sadness also mingled - it was a thing of the past now, and once these kegs Sunjata had received were gone, there would never be more of it. "I was here at the time, yes. And before it was ever considered possible that it could. I grew up in a cage, convinced I would never see the what the outside world looked like." She shrugged, knowing most of the others who sat in the bar were the same. Many of them had still not left their homes, refusing to cross that old border even now.