home at last.

Home. It was a strange concept to her, a thing so tangible and fluid that she had never been able to define it or accurate pinpoint it to one place. Sure, Seracia had been where she had lived since she was born, but it had not been sad to leave. No -- home was something much more abstract.

Ara was lost in thought as she padded near the hot spring. Only recently had she and her family come to Ludicael, but already it was beginning to feel right here. She had quickly realized that home was not a place, but a feeling. Home was with her mother and her father, with Faolan and Mercury and Jendai, wherever her travels had led her. Home was feeling safe and warm and happy. A slight smile played at her lips as she drew up alongside the warm spring, coming to rest on her belly. Everything would be much better here, Ara was certain of it.