Fair.

Aella woke up to find the sun shining high overhead, and Doll laid back in the grass before the tree looking up at the clouds pass by.

“You didn’t wake me at dawn?”

“I figured you needed the extra rest. Besides,” Doll got to her feet and faced Aella. “If you didn’t you would have woken up sooner wouldn’t you?”

Aella smiled

“That’s what I like to see, anyway, now you’re up we can set off whenever you’d like.”

–

The two walked through the fields of long grass, checking Claire’s page once in a while to make sure they were headed in the right direction. The warm breeze and sun did their best to raise Aella’s spirits just like Doll, and Aella definitely appreciated it.

It hadn’t escaped Aella’s mind at all that one of her friends had been killed and another had been kidnapped, but the world seemed to her to be reassuring her that there is something worthwhile to life, even the hard and sad parts. A breeze like this, travelling with good company, these are things she could appreciate no matter what state her heart finds itself in.