From Fire, We Grow

Gloom was a rare sight, having largely hidden herself away as she struggled to process her grief. It was safe to say she wasn't really progressing, more stagnating in her sadness and numbness. Still she needed a place to call home and while she had considered seeking out Ashen (having not yet learned they'd dissolved as sequestered away as she was) but she wasn't sure being in the place where her mother had passed and having to explain what had happened to her brothers felt like it might kill her. She was doing a good enough job of that all on her own thank you very much.

So she pushed her way sluggishly from her room, hers because it no longer smelt like Audra, and dragged herself to where the meeting had been called. She picked her way numbly to an open spot near the back of the gathered crowd and huddled herself up, trying to make herself as small and invisible as possible.

"Speech"