Forsake your loved ones, to protect yourself.
Delphine shrugged, murmuring, "It doesn't work for long," she admitted the words, even though there was a bitter taste in her mouth. "Hiding isn't living, it... took me a while to realize that." She had only recently come to that realization.
"I sort of thought, well... maybe if I hid, eventually I'd end up back in Northaven..." She grinned at Astra, running her hand along the luxere's side, "...and then it just became the norm." She fell quiet for a moment, studying the luxere. "Astra never showed up?" She didn't know how else to ask that question, but it wasn't too far out of the realm of possibilities; why else would he have named his companion after the girl?
He welcomed her, and she offered a smile, watching Poe. The Galah fluffed his feathers one more time, before he stepped onto Loren's finger. He rubbied against the man's hand, crooning his appreciation. "He likes you. That's... not surprising, he likes everyone."
"I sort of thought, well... maybe if I hid, eventually I'd end up back in Northaven..." She grinned at Astra, running her hand along the luxere's side, "...and then it just became the norm." She fell quiet for a moment, studying the luxere. "Astra never showed up?" She didn't know how else to ask that question, but it wasn't too far out of the realm of possibilities; why else would he have named his companion after the girl?
He welcomed her, and she offered a smile, watching Poe. The Galah fluffed his feathers one more time, before he stepped onto Loren's finger. He rubbied against the man's hand, crooning his appreciation. "He likes you. That's... not surprising, he likes everyone."
