On the other side of clouds

When she enquired after her siblings however, the girl could only offer the same shrug she had to her uncle, concern clear on her face as she responded once again, "Just… sad," She hadn’t really checked in on them since the sun disappeared if she was honest, because it was a real struggle to be around either of them when they were the way they were. "Mum told us it wasn’t safe for us to stay, that you’d banished us all. I mean, I wanted to go on an adventure anyway, so I didn’t mind, but they’re different. It’s been kinda great to get out of the incense and oil routine… But I think they’re really homesick. It’s not like any of us had been too far from the shrine before. Everything is so big out here, big and strange, and even stranger now." She hadn’t stopped to think that her words might hurt the other wolf. Venom had asked, and Modesty had answered. Lying had just never been her nature.

"speech".