Talk:The Pine Copse/@comment-5324136-20150719042308/@comment-5324136-20150719071416

"It's not that I didn't trust you!" she blurted without meaning to, then ruffled her fur in embarrassment. "It's not that I didn't trust you, Owlshade," she repeated, softer this time. "But it was my burden to bear and I didn't want to - to inconvience anyone else with personal issues, especially when they shouldn't even have bothered me to begin with. And it was a hard journey, one I think was best traveled alone."

She made a dry, bitterly amused sound low in her throat. "And I was nearly dead many times over, although I doubt that will comfort you any. Truth be told - " she broke off and breathed deeply, searching for her usual calm. "Truth be told, I was searching for my father." She spat the last word out, not wanting to use it but unable to think of any alternative. "As for where I went, I'm afraid I couldn't tell you, no matter how hard I tried. I was there and back again, I suppose, although where there was I haven't a clue."

"Not that it mattered, in the end," she meowed, scoring the ground with her claws and glaring down at the marks left behind. "I never did find him, even for all my moons of looking."