we'll be fine

Would it be so terrible to let someone in?

Maybe. She didn't know if the fully grown young man was looking for something fleeting, fooling around with his new maturity and with others in the process. "I'm saying" she said now, trying not to sound disappointed and awkward "girls like it if a man is passionate" Wren proclaimed, shooting a look from over her shoulder with a smirk "even if he gets slapped, he at least had no regrets about going for it."

That advice could be taken two ways. One of which would lead someone with a broken heart down a dark path. The other was... complicated too. Mercury missed his chance, and she also did. It wasn't just on him. Maybe if I told him the truth. She wanted to, oh she did. But what if he was just joking with her? Her heart couldn't take the blow. "Up there is where I think the dens'll be at first?" Keahi and her had driven out a grizzly.

She had gone back to check them, finding the space suitable for something. "Say, Merc" Wren added "what sort of rank do you want?" Trading Guild was a broad term indeed "I mean, I know you're a" prince "merchant. But what if you wanted something else?" How was she to know?

"Speech"