Vagabonds Unite

"Seraphim!" Even if he had fallen asleep, the slightly-shrill, angry voice of his only sister would probably have woken Phim up immediately. The leggy, dark form of the yearling girl marched up out of the encumbering brambles of raspberry canes she shoved her way through. "Where have you been? You've been avoiding me!" She shoved her scowling face close to his. "You've been off having fun." She sniffed imperiously at him and sat down, still scowling, with her nose in the air. "Well, while you've been off playing, I have been doing grownup stuff. Mother's training me to be a healer! And you weren't even there when Mother became Et Uxor." Ok, so neither had she been, but she didn't have to actually tell him that because that would lessen the guilt trip. Deliberately, she let her expression fall into a tragic, betrayed pout, forced tears to glisten and she peeked up at Phim with glittering moist lashes. "I missed you."