Even chance

From here, she could hear the party just across the short stretch of black sand. To think her mother had settled so close to those who had cast her out, and never let it bother her... that said, it seemed their old neighbours had been a quite lot, mostly keeping to themselves, hoping their prior reputation alone would be enough to protect them, and as far as she could tell, it had.

Deluge had sent Scald ahead, no doubt her father would want to know the outcome of his offer, but there was a lot the Fallen girl had seen in that short explosion, undoubtedly not the last extinction burst Dread's father would throw their way, that she knew she probably wasn't supposed to see, or hear. Some of it even seemed to be news to Dread. She walked into the frigid water deep enough to submerge the slash to her arm, refusing to pull a face at the way the water made it sting. "So yer ma was kidnapped huh?" She tried to keep her tone conversational. "Though ter be honest, it seemed like news ter you too..."