Oswin was enraptured as Jetta began to speak, hanging on every word concerning a new group of siblings she’d yet to know existed until this day. If she’d been the sort who needed a sign to know leaving her family on the Mainlands had been right, she’d imagine this was it. The hardest thing about returning to the islands had been the thought of missing her family and while she missed her father and mother (and Calder too), she felt as if she hadn’t left them at all now that she still had family here. Not only “here” as in “on the islands”, but “here” as in the peak! And they’d both come back after being gone!

Oswin was thus determined to be as close to Jetta as she could be. It didn’t matter they were full-grown mares and had just met today, this was her sister and the one thing Oswin put importance on was family.

With her ears forward and her blue eyes bright, she smiled and thought of the information Jetta gave her. A sister named Adelheid and even a young brother or sister she hadn’t met? It was more than Oswin could have hoped for. Oswin bobbed her head when the question was posed to her. “I have a brother who’s a year younger than me, his name is Calder.” She was pretty sure her mother’s belly had been swollen with a child again when she’d left, but she wasn’t certain and hadn’t stopped to ask. For a minute she thought of the gold freckled stallion that she wanted to find but quickly reminded herself while he was her brother, he wasn’t Jetta’s.

“Oh,” Oswin said softly after Jetta spoke again, noticing how the smile had fallen from her sister’s mouth. Oswin hadn’t stopped to imagine how that must have felt for others who weren’t at the Prairie to come back and find it empty... she wondered if Foxglove and Firethorn knew. “Uhm, yeah, actually. Dad wanted to leave the islands, so he asked if anyone wanted to go with them and my mom took me and my brother along.” A couple other mares of the Prairie herd had gone too, but she wondered if her father had talked to Jetta’s mother and told her or not. It wasn’t Oswin’s place to wonder so she quickly pushed the thought away. “They’re on the mainlands, a few months travel from here.” She paused. “If you ever wanted to go to them, I wouldn’t mind taking you… so you didn’t get lost.”

Oswin had just come to the islands after taking forever to convince her mother it was okay to let her go, but she wouldn’t mind leading Jetta to them if she wanted to see their father.