[ There's a pause, which is actually just a breath let out too quietly for the crystal to pick up. ]

She was close to me, in the Circle, and after the Circle. Powerful, strong willed, as angry as any of us, and still joyful. She was near to my age, and so we shared a cohort. I came to understand all those as my brothers and sisters, but she was the first.

Both of us were fairly average with storytelling, but she was always very capable of surprise, and so.