As the warmth of Lyden wraps around her, she can feel the fear beginning to fade. For a moment, all she could think of was him. She begin to forget Kasabian, the buckskin who challenged for her. The words of doubt that he had planted in her head, a seed that if fed would grow into something that could rip her world apart. She pushes those thoughts deep within the recesses of her mind, hoping that she would not think of them again. There is nothing to fear my love- no matter what happens we’ll always find a way to be together. His words of comfort wash over her, she now understood that she had nothing to fear. Maybe it was for the best that she gave up on thoughts of wandering, of travelling to explore the Lost Islands, she seemed to always get herself in trouble anyway. "I do want us to be together. " She pauses. "I feel like this is meant to be, but sometimes, like when you were gone. I just feel, sooo, alone. " So she had wandered, thinking that she had been abandoned, but she didn't want to divulge on those thoughts, not now.

Then Lyden began to pour out his worries upon her, scared that she wanted to leave. Where would she go? To the buckskin? Yes, she had spoke to him, she had felt mesmerized by him. But it had not been what she feels for Lyden at this moment. If she wanted the buckskin she knew that she would have to learn to love him, than there was Lyden who she felt a connection to. "I know his name, I met him in the commons, it was completely by accident. Please don't be mad." Her body begins to shake, she knew that he would never hurt her. But would he be angry with her? How could she tell him about their conversation? Kasabian, had pried until she told him every fear that she had...Including the ones about foals, living in the Forest. But unknown to her, wherever she lived she would begin to feel this way over time. Her greatest fear was rejection.

She focuses her attention on him, searching for those pale blue eyes. "Lyden, I do still love you and want to stay here. I was scared because you were gone." She chokes out the last few words, her throat becoming tight. His next words shocked her, if she wanted to go he would let her go, but she didn't want to leave the Forest. "I don't want to leave to go somewhere else. I want to stay in the Forest, but I can't promise that I won't sometimes feel a fear that I can not explain. It is as if I am scared to be.... " Her words trail off. Abandoned She says aloud in her head.