[open] Everything that kills me makes me feel alive; any

[Roselin]

Her brother is off somewhere and Roselin knows better by now than to ask Oren where he has gone.

He could be back before dusk or before the next dawn. When the curiosity takes him, her gold-marked brother is gone and it is Roselin left behind to fret after him. Winds, she thinks of her twin. Her mother isn't here to caution patience so Rose has to conjure the memory instead inside her mind.

And where has Reave been?

It is her brothers (apart from steady and stoic Yanhua) that all seem to blow in different directions, just as the four winds do.

Apart from wondering about the travels of her brothers, there is the return of the sun to now contemplate. On this particular morning, Rose had found a spot where one of the might Taiga trees had been felled by a storm and the expanse of blue sky above let the sunlight beam down without the restraint of the heavy cover of the forest canopy. She means to only stay a moment but the sun feels so lovely against her dark hide that the silver-black adolescent closes her blue eyes and lets herself luxuriate in the rays that come streaming down.

She has time, she thinks. Just a moment and then she'll go find Memorie or Cheri; perhaps Ellie or Lumi.

But the sound of a horse nearby - the shake of a head - compels her to open her blue eyes and Rose is glad to see her father.

"Da," she says, as happy to see him as she had been the daylight. The adolescent takes a step towards him and only tilts her head slightly, a near-mimic of the inquisitive angle that the bay roan holds his. It doesn't surprise her that the daylight and her father return almost simultaneously. The sight of him momentarily distracts Roselin from the nagging thought that the light has returned and yet her mother has not. "Did you bring back the sun?" she asks in a voice that is teasing and wistful. She smiles and when her bright blue eyes meet his, there is no doubt in that gaze that @[Leilan] would be the one to bring it back.