Please stay, for this fear it will not die; Kora

[Noori]

Most days, most days stay the sole same
Please stay, for this fear it will not die
Down low, down amongst the thorn rows
Weeds grow, through the lilies and the vines

It's a mite too cold for her up here in the north, but if her mother could stand it, then so could she for fuck's sakes. Don't let it ever be said that Noori didn't possess the same courage as Scorch, though she would die to be related to her mother in any other way; but at the very least, she refuses to be labelled a pussy. Especially now, as her tree-like figure transitions from childish to distinctly adolescent; mood swings, nap times, and telling everyone to go fuck themselves are her middle names.

Consequently, when she does happen to run into a family member, it is with a little more anger than perhaps anticipated. Then again, she has always been a spitfire girl with rash, impulsive tendencies (just like her mother!), so Shahrizai probably hadn't been too taken aback. At any rate, the enormous hug he wrapped his older sister in managed to subdue whatever sassiness remained her, and in the end, she left smiling and warm for having met with a brother she had not seen in decades.

This made a nice soft pillow for when she ran into her mother, too; thanks to Shahrizai's easing her back into family matters, she managed to handle the whole ordeal with a fair amount of grace, even bestowing the clearly neglected bastard son of Scorch's with a happy flower crown and some forest friends to follow him around for some time. The child had seemed greatly happy with just such a gift - attention seemed to be a thing he lacked - and even Scorch had been forced to smile, and to give her eldest daughter a sorely awaited hug.

Of course, Noori did not mention that she had been with Hestoni not days before in Tephra. That would make absolutely everything blow up, and not even her teenaged affliction for shit-disturbing could bring her to rend that kind of hole in the already-destroyed tapestry of her family's well being. Instead, she left her mother feeling slightly less settled than she had arrived to the land, not really knowing what to expect but knowing for a fact that there were even more people she knew awaiting her in this cliff-side waste land.

noori

@[Kora] so this is really more of a dictation of everything she did before finding kora but like, i hope that's okay